Diary: Feb. 2nd, '78
by Tetsuya Noda
- Date:
- 1978
- Medium:
- Woodcut, silkscreen
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Tetsuya Noda
$1,000–$8,000. Common diary prints: $1,000–$2,500. Key value factors: Noda's innovative diary-print concept has earned him major museum recognition. Earlier works and larger formats command premiums.
A winter Diary entry from early February 1978, this woodcut and silkscreen print records what is typically the coldest period of the Japanese year. The combined technique — Noda's signature method by this point — merges photographic imagery with hand-carved woodblock surfaces. February in Japan is austere: bare branches, grey skies, occasional snow in the Kanto region. Noda was thirty-seven, midway through the first decade of a practice that would define his career. Each Diary print from this period established the visual grammar he would use for the next four decades: a date, a scene, the quiet insistence that this particular day mattered enough to be preserved in print.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Diary: Feb. 2nd, '78 was created by Tetsuya Noda (野田哲也) in 1978.
Diary: Feb. 2nd, '78 depicts winter and daily life.
