Imagination 5
Kunihiro Amano
- Marked Down $200.00
- Gallery Price $500.00
- Title
- Imagination 5
- Artist
- Kunihiro Amano
- Medium
- Woodblock and Embossing
- Edition
- 12/60
- Image size
- 21 1/2" height X 15 1/4" width
- Paper size
- 24 1/2" height X 17 3/4" width
- Signed
- "Kunihiro Amano '71" at lower center margin in graphite
- Date of creation
- 1971
- Condition
- Good to excellent. Upper margin creases and tide lines in upper margin only.
- Provenance
- Consigned by a New Mexico resident LP
- About The Imagination 5
This series of Amano's work (all titled Imagination followed by a numeral or numerals) is illustrated and discussed in Who's Who in Modern Japanese Prints by Frances Blakemore.
"These prints are filled to the very edges with a bold mixture of vivid colors and stark black that combine with great intensity. The lower edges are finished in double scallops whose shape leads to a center of interest: a sphere composed of concentric circles printed in prismatic colors. From this center a row of dots, sometimes embossed, decreases in size as it approaches the bottom edge of the print."
In perfect condition this artist's prints comparable in composition sell for approximately $700.
Marked Down from $350 to $200
- About Kunihiro Amano
(Born 1929) Kunihiro Amano is a Japanese printmaker who taught himself woodblock printmaking, exhibiting his prints first in 1955. Amano's early work often used the effect of portraying the appearance of wood grain. Birds and fish imagery gradually were replaced with more abstracted designs as he aged.
Amano is a member of the Japanese Print Association and of Kokuga-kei. Early in his career (1955 - 1970's) his editions were often limited to 50 or 60 impressions. Later examples were pulled in editions of 120, to correspond with the greater demand for his work.
International exhibitions of his work took place in these countries: Japan, France, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Poland, Brazil, Italy, England, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Germany, Ireland and New Zealand. His work is included in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, in addition to museums in Japan, Switzerland, Poland, Macedonia, Norway, Austria and Germany.
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