Print of the Day!! Wed, Mar. 16, 2022, is by Keiko Minami (1911-2004): (Bird and Blue Fish), color intaglio, ca 1966, 26/50. $1,500.00.

The Print of the Day!! Wednesday, March 16, 2022, is by Japanese-born printmaker Keiko Minami (1911-2004). Another image in a series of 'Prints by Women' honoring 'Women's History Month' ?

(Bird and Blue Fish) is an intaglio, a color aquatint and etching, done around 1966 by Japanese-born printmaker Keiko Minami (1911-2004). The platemark measures 14-3/8 x 11-3/8 inches. This impression is pencil signed and editioned '26/50' by the artist in the lower margin. It was printed by the artist on a sheet of white wove BFK Rives paper that measures 22-3/16 x14-15/16 inches. The inventory number for this work is DASL202.

This color intaglio by Keiko Minami (1911-2004) is available from the gallery for $1,500.00. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions.

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Keiko Minami is known for her fairytale-like motifs revolved mainly around the themes of young girls, nature, and castles. This lyrical and charming etching combines precision and fantasy to illustrate her imagined world. Two of Minami's influences were the Japanese Mingei folk art movement and the works of Paul Klee.

Employing her signature use of complex, delicate linework against a plain blackground, Keiko Minami's flat-plane composition highlights a fantastical scene in which a bird uses the leaf of an aquatic plant to peer at tiny blue fish as they swim by. Minami's etching technique gives the sense of magnetized ions gathered at the center of space, forming shapes that appear at once stable and ready to burst apart. Though her subjects are often sweet or decorative, her execution is one of controlled tension, making each composition deceptively intriguing.

Keiko Minami was born in the Imizu District, Toyama Prefecture in Japan on February 12, 1911. Orphaned at a young age she expressed and pursued an early interest in the arts. She painted and wrote poetry in high school, and studied the art of children's stories under the Japanese novelist and poet Sakae Tsuboi. Minami attended the School of Fine Arts Tokyo (now the Tokyo University of the Arts) from 1927 until 1929.

After World War II, Minami moved to Tokyo to create children's books, and it was there that she met her future husband, the?renowned mezzotint artist Yōzō Hamaguchi. Minami and Hamaguchi moved to Paris in late 1953 where Minami began studying at the atelier of?Johnny Friedlaender, a pioneer in aquatint etching.

In 1959, Keiko Minami was named the official artist of the United Nations for her etching Tree of Peace. The Museum of Modern Art and UNICEF reproduced many of her works as greeting cards beginning in the late 1950s. In 1961, Minami entered into a contract with the German dealer Heinz Berggruen and three of her prints were published by Associated American Artists, New York City, in the 1960s. Her prints appeared regularly at international print exhibitions.

?In 1996, after a forty year absence Minami returned to Japan, where she died on December 1, 2004, at age 93.

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