Tranquil Night
- Date:
- 1981
- Medium:
- Etching
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$1,000–$6,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Tanaka's exquisite farmhouse etchings are beloved by collectors worldwide. Since his death in 2019, prices have firmed. Traditional thatched-roof subjects are most popular.
A tranquil night — shizukana yoru — captured in a 1981 etching where Tanaka applies his architectural sensibility to the particular quality of after-dark silence in a Japanese village or temple district. Night transforms familiar subjects: moonlight or lamplight catches on roof tiles and stone walls at angles unavailable by day, and the absence of daytime activity empties the lanes and courtyards of human presence. The result is an architecture experienced as pure form, stripped of its social function.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
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1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tranquil Night was created by Tanaka Ryohei (田中良平) in 1981.
Tranquil Night uses Etching, on etching.
Tranquil Night depicts night scenes.
