Mountainman in Winter
- Date:
- 1955
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions:
- 45.4 × 33 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$500–$5,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Azechi's cheerful mountain prints have consistent demand. Larger and more complex compositions are most valued.
The 1955 Mountainman in Winter shows Azechi's archetypal figure in the most demanding seasonal conditions—deep snow, cold severe enough to require full bundling in heavy garments, the mountain landscape reduced to the starkest chromatic contrasts. The figure's heavy winter clothing—visible as layered rounded shapes in his bold flat-plane style—transformed the human body into something more compact and geometrically dense than the summer climber. Winter mountaineering made his formal vocabulary even more naturally abstract.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mountainman in Winter was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎) in 1955.
Mountainman in Winter depicts landscapes and winter.
Mountainman in Winter measures 45.4 × 33 cm.