Woman with black hair
- Date:
- 1955
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 3/100
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$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.
The 1955 Woman with Black Hair, edition 3 of 100, shows Azechi working with the figure of a woman defined by the visual mass of her dark hair—a subject that shifted his compositional emphasis from the mountain environment's broad horizontal and vertical elements to the intimate close-up of a personal feature. The black hair in the print's light ground would function as the bold dark element that in his mountain compositions was typically provided by rock face or dense shadow, here transferred to the figure's most distinctive attribute.
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.
Woman with black hair was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎) in 1955.
Woman with black hair depicts bijin-ga.
