Man Who Returned From the Summit
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$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.
Man Who Returned From the Summit—the climber descending after achieving the highest point—carries the specific quality of completion and the particular emotional state that follows extreme physical effort in high places. The returned man is not the triumphant hero but the exhausted, changed person who has been somewhere most people cannot go and is now returning to the ordinary world, carrying the experience as invisible cargo. Azechi's figure shows this in the body's posture rather than the face's expression.
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
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Man Who Returned From the Summit was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Man Who Returned From the Summit depicts mountains.
