Tulips in Vase
- Date:
- ca. 1921
- Medium:
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
$500–$5,000. Common landscapes: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Collaborative prints with Frank Brangwyn are most sought after.
Tulips arranged in a vase — a quintessentially Dutch subject that connects Urushibara's European experience to the Netherlands' historical association with floral cultivation and still-life painting. Around 1921, Urushibara applied his color woodblock technique to this traditional still-life subject, likely emphasizing the bold, clean forms of tulip blooms in the saturated pigments that woodblock printing achieves most brilliantly. The tulip's structured simplicity — a cup of color on a stem — translates naturally into the woodblock aesthetic of clear outlines and flat color.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tulips in Vase was created by Yoshijiro Urushibara (漆原木虫) in ca. 1921.
Tulips in Vase depicts birds & flowers and still life.
