$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.
Space Voice (うつろな声)—the hollow or empty voice, a sound that echoes in vast open spaces—is one of Azechi's more abstract titles, suggesting a composition concerned with acoustic experience translated into visual terms, or perhaps with the emotional quality of isolation that produces a voice calling into emptiness. The mountain world was for him also a world of particular acoustic experience: the echo of a shout across a cirque, the sound of wind in the exposed ridges, the profound silence of snowfall.
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.
Space Voice — うつろな声 was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Space Voice — うつろな声 depicts figures, snow scenes, and mountains.
