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.
The forty-fourth iris in Sugiura Kazutoshi's numbered series was produced early enough in the project that the fundamental compositional decisions are still being explored rather than refined. The hana-shōbu at No. 44 shows the artist working through questions of scale — how large should the flower be relative to the pictorial field? — and orientation — should the iris be shown at eye level, from above, or from below? — that would eventually be resolved into the more confident solutions of the later numbered entries. The layered silkscreen technique is already firmly established as the printmaker's primary tool.
Iris No 44 — 花菖蒲 No 44 was created by Sugiura Kazutoshi (杉浦和俊).
Iris No 44 — 花菖蒲 No 44 depicts birds & flowers.
