Card size print entitled Autumn
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Typical Price
$500–$4,000. Common subjects: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: As an early sosaku-hanga pioneer, Kawakami's prints have historical significance. His distinctive graphic style is collected.
Description
This small card-size print titled "Autumn" is a miniature in both scale and ambition — a pocket-sized distillation of the season into a few carefully chosen marks and colors. Kawakami produced many such small-format works, which were exchanged as gifts and new year's cards among artists and collectors in the Japanese print community. The intimate scale requires all his compositional economy: autumn rendered in the fewest possible elements that still carry its essential character — a colored leaf, a cooled sky, the shortened afternoon light.
More Prints by Sumio Kawakami
More Autumn Foliage Prints
A Farmhouse in Autumn, Ayashi, Miyagi Prefecture (Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi)
Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi
1946
Color woodblock print
Yoro Waterfall in Mino Province (Mino no kuni Yoro no taki), from the series Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku Takimeguri)
Woodblock print
Tengui Rock, Autumn in Shiobara (Shiobara no aki (Tenguiwa))
1950
Color woodblock print
Autumn at the Arayu Hot Spring, Shiobara
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Card size print entitled Autumn was created by Sumio Kawakami (川上澄生).
Card size print entitled Autumn depicts autumn foliage.