Woman with fan
- Date:
- 1969
- Medium:
- Stencil on paper; edition 18/50
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$300–$3,000. Common folk art prints: $300–$800. Key value factors: Mori's cheerful folk art prints are affordably priced. His stencil technique (kappazuri) is distinctive.
Woman with Fan, printed in 1969 as a stencil in an edition of eighteen, presents a female figure holding the decorated fan that was among the most important props and accessories in Japanese visual and performance culture. The fan's decorative surface — typically painted with seasonal imagery, landscapes, or calligraphy — provided Mori with a composition within the composition, and the figure's posture in relation to the held fan created the characteristic elegant tension of the [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) genre. His stencil technique gave the figure and fan the bold, flat color areas that distinguished his version of this classical subject from more subtly modeled approaches.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman with fan was created by Yoshitoshi Mori (森義利) in 1969.
Woman with fan uses Stencil Print, on stencil on paper; edition 18/50.
Woman with fan depicts bijin-ga.
