$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.
Unknown Man and Cloud—figure and atmospheric phenomenon in relationship at altitude—depicts the specific experience of being among the clouds at high elevation, when the climber is no longer beneath weather but within it. The cloud at altitude had a different presence than the cloud seen from below: it moved through the climber rather than passing overhead, the world momentarily dissolved into white diffusion before emerging again with new visibility. Azechi's simplified rendering of figure and cloud would have expressed this dissolution and recovery.
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
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Unknown- Man and Cloud was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Unknown- Man and Cloud depicts landscapes, figures, and mountains.