$500–$5,000. Common mountain prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Azechi's cheerful mountain prints have consistent demand. Larger and more complex compositions are most valued.
Blue Freeze from 1960, edition 2 of 50, shows Azechi using color as emotional notation: the cold blue of frozen water or packed ice rendered in the saturated, unmodulated hues of his mature print style, the freeze itself captured not through descriptive detail but through the tonal relationship of blue against white or blue against the darker value of rock and shadow. The very small edition of 50 and the impression number 2 suggest this was among the first prints pulled, when the block's surface was sharpest and the ink freshest.
1944 (printed c. 1950 from recut block?)
Color woodblock print; oban
1944 (printed c. 1950 from recut block?)
Color woodblock print; oban
1945
Color woodblock print
1961
Color woodblock print; edition 10/100
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Blue Freeze was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎) in 1960.
Blue Freeze depicts snow scenes, winter, and abstract.