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Asama II by Kunito Nagaoka
Asama II
Kunito Nagaoka
Title
Asama II
Artist
Kunito Nagaoka
1940 - PRESENT (biography)Year
1979
Technique
color etching
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
20398
Price
$275.00
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:
"Registered eruptions of different magnitudes:"
1940: 46
1941: 398
1942: 279
1943: 0
"My eruption from my mother's womb occurred during a time of the most violent volcanic activity. Yet I emerged from the agitated night into the agitated day, of the not yet separated unity of subject and object"