$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Takahashi's prints are modestly priced. Quality examples with strong design are most valued.
A woodblock print framed as a correspondence from the Mediterranean, suggesting an encounter with the southern European coastline filtered through a Japanese printmaker's sensibility. The title positions the print as a personal message, a visual letter sent back from travels, rather than a documentary landscape. Takahashi translates the Mediterranean's distinctive qualities, the intensity of its light, the mineral blues of its water, the sun-baked earth tones of its architecture, into the vocabulary of mokuhanga. The intersection of Japanese woodblock technique with Mediterranean scenery produces an unusual visual hybrid, where the soft absorption of water-based inks meets subject matter more commonly rendered in oil paint or watercolor by European artists.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Letter from Mediterranean Sea was created by Takahashi Rikio (高橋力雄).
Letter from Mediterranean Sea depicts seascapes.
