$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.
"Floral Design" presents Kawakami's decorative and botanical sensibility apart from his signature historical and cross-cultural themes — a composition organized around the visual pleasure of flowers arranged or depicted in an abstracted, patterned way. Kawakami's training in the sosaku-hanga tradition gave him the technical foundation to move between his historical narratives and more purely decorative subjects without losing his characteristic personal voice: the simplified forms, the warm color relationships, the sense of design as pleasure.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Floral design was created by Sumio Kawakami (川上澄生).
Floral design depicts birds & flowers, still life, and abstract.
