Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
Among the final numbered entries in Sugiura Kazutoshi's extraordinary iris series, the one hundred sixty-fifth composition is a late statement in a decades-long investigation — the hana-shōbu rendered with a mastery so complete it seems effortless, the layered silkscreen-woodblock-gold-leaf process producing results that belie the complexity of their making. Works at this terminal range of the series carry a different weight than earlier entries: they are not explorations but conclusions, not questions but answers — though Sugiura, by continuing to add to the series, seems to have resisted the idea that any single answer could be final.
Iris No 165 — 花菖蒲 No 165 was created by Sugiura Kazutoshi (杉浦和俊).
Iris No 165 — 花菖蒲 No 165 depicts birds & flowers.
