Morning at a Seaside Village
- Date:
- 1929
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
A 1929 print depicting a coastal settlement at dawn, the quiet morning light casting long shadows across boats and buildings before the day's activity begins. Henmi's morning subjects often carry the particular quality of early light — the world not yet fully resolved, colors still subdued, forms emerging from the night — that suited both his poetic sensibility and his technical mastery of tonal gradation in color woodblock printing. The sea in the early morning had its own silence distinct from the midday bustle of harbor activity.
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Woodblock print
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Morning at a Seaside Village was created by Henmi Takashi (逸見享) in 1929.
Morning at a Seaside Village depicts seascapes and village scenes.
