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Asama I by Kunito Nagaoka

Asama I by Kunito Nagaoka

Asama I

Kunito Nagaoka

Title

Asama I

 
Artist

Kunito Nagaoka

  1940 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
1979  
Technique
color etching and aquatint 
Image Size
5 1/8 x 6 7/8" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
26 of 50  
Annotations
pencil dated after signature and editioned in lower left; artist's chop in lower right "Original Print Kunito Nagaoka"; printer's chop in lower left "Radierwerkstatt Schlemme Berlin" 
Reference
 
Paper
heavy, antique-white Hahnemuehle/Kupferdruckpapier wove 
State
published 
Publisher
John Szoke Graphics, New York, 1981 
Inventory ID
20397 
Price
SOLD
Description

"Asama" is a portfolio of five colored etchings printed by Michael Schlemme in Berlin from two copper plates and in three colors.

Kunito Nagaoka comments:

"The most severe eruption to have been recorded at Asama occurred in 1783. 1265 houses were destroyed with 1377 people and 570 horses killed. At Karuizawa, ten kilometers from the volcano, ash covered the ground to a depth of 150 cm. At Edo (the present-day Tokyo) there was a cm layer of ash."

"In the very process of my procreation more than ten generations of my family have transmitted their experiences of the unstable soil of human existence to me."