Bottle with Lemon and Quarter Lemon
- Date:
- 1983
- Medium:
- Mezzotint
- Dimensions:
- 62.2 × 47.4 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$2,000–$15,000. Still life prints are among the artist's most iconic works. Good mezzotint still lifes: $5,000–$10,000. Key value factors: Hamaguchi is regarded as one of the greatest mezzotint artists of the 20th century. His fruit and butterfly still lifes are most iconic and command the highest prices.
Bottle with Lemon and Quarter Lemon arranges three objects—a glass or ceramic bottle, a whole lemon, and a wedge cut from a second lemon—on an undefined dark surface. The cross-section of the quarter lemon introduces an interior view that contrasts with the sealed, opaque forms of the whole fruit and bottle. Hamaguchi exploited this structural contrast across many still-life mezzotints of the 1980s: the cut surface of a fruit reveals its fibrous interior and catches light differently than its rind. The bottle's curved glass surface provides an occasion to render reflective highlights, which in mezzotint are achieved by burnishing the plate to near-mirror smoothness. Executed in 1983, the print belongs to his most celebrated decade of still-life production.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bottle with Lemon and Quarter Lemon was created by Yozo Hamaguchi (浜口陽三) in 1983.
Bottle with Lemon and Quarter Lemon uses Mezzotint, on mezzotint.
Bottle with Lemon and Quarter Lemon depicts urban scenes.
Bottle with Lemon and Quarter Lemon measures 62.2 × 47.4 cm.
