$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ono's socially conscious prints and urban scenes are valued for both artistic quality and historical interest.
"Hizakari" — the height of midday sun — conveys baking, still-air heat, and Himeji Castle rendered in that glare. Ono visited Himeji in 1965 and responded to its dramatic white plaster walls and layered rooflines with a composition that plays the castle's architectural complexity against the flattening effect of intense direct light. The result is a formally rigorous cityscape that uses the Japanese subject to continue the same architectural inquiry he brought to Vienna and Cologne.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hizakari Himeiji, Shôwa period, dated 1965 was created by Tadashige Ono (小野忠重).
Hizakari Himeiji, Shôwa period, dated 1965 depicts castles, architecture, and summer.
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