Young Child
- 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.
Young Child—a small human figure at the earliest stage of life, as yet unformed by the mountain world but already existing within it—is one of Azechi's rare childhood subjects, his focus otherwise almost entirely on adults shaped by the alpine environment. The young child in the mountain context was both vulnerable and already beginning the process of learning the terrain that would define their life if they grew up in the mountain community he documented. His bold simplified rendering gave the small figure the same formal dignity as the experienced climber.
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.
Young Child was created by Umetaro Azechi (畦地梅太郎).
Young Child depicts children and daily life.
