Yoshitomo Nara Universal Soldier Etching, Atelier C-126 Calendar 2004 Sheet, Offered as Hand-Signed, 131/400
Yoshitomo Nara Universal Soldier Etching, Atelier C-126 Calendar 2004 Sheet, Offered as Hand-Signed, 131/400
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A Small Soldier Among Friends
One sheet, one year, a studio of artists each given a few centimetres of copper. Nara answers with a child in a flowered helmet, a pocket-sized emblem of his gentle defiance.
Best for: Collectors of Nara intaglio prints and of Japanese printmaking studio editions
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Described as good and close to unused; clean paper and crisp plate marks, with slight handling waviness possible at the edges.
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A single large sheet printed for 2004 by the printmaking studio of Tokyo University of the Arts, carrying a small round etching by Yoshitomo Nara of a girl in a flowered helmet beside plates by fellow artists. Offered as hand-signed by each artist and numbered 131/400.
The Piece
Atelier C-126 is the intaglio studio at Tokyo University of the Arts, and its annual calendar is a quiet institution among print collectors in Japan. Each year a group of artists connected with the studio contributes one small copperplate, and all the plates are printed together on one sheet of heavy paper around a discreet calendar in green type.
The 2004 edition is the one most sought after, because of the plate in the upper left corner. Within a circular plate mark, printed in a warm reddish brown, a child looks out from under a helmet decorated with flowers and a small tree, ringed by the words Universal Soldier. It is a compact statement of the gentle defiance that runs through Nara’s work of those years, and it is described as signed in pencil beneath the image.
Around it are plates in gold, indigo, sky blue, vermilion and black by painters and printmakers including Gyoji Nomiyama, Koji Kinutani, Tadayoshi Nakabayashi and Tetsuya Noda, each with a pencil signature below. Ten plates are visible on the sheet.
Details
- Artist: Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959), with fellow artists of the studio
- Title: Atelier C-126 Calendar 2004
- Nara plate: Girl in a flowered helmet, lettered Universal Soldier
- Medium: Copperplate prints on heavy wove paper, as described
- Edition: Offered as numbered 131/400 in pencil
- Signatures: Offered as hand-signed in pencil by each artist
- Sheet size: 52.8 x 70.5 cm (20.8 x 27.8 in)
- Presentation: Unframed sheet
- Publisher: Tokyo University of the Arts, printmaking studio
Condition
- Described as in good condition and close to unused; the paper is clean and the plate marks are crisp in the photographs.
- Slight handling waviness at the sheet edges is to be expected of an unframed work on paper.
Condition grade A (excellent) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
The signatures and edition number are given as described by the present custodian, an established gallery that offers the sheet as authentic; a team of curators at the Desk reviews the piece before dispatch. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing with acid-free mounts, and keep away from direct sunlight.
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