About This Print
Similar to an earlier 1967 composition Voice of the Wind (Kaze no koe), shown below, Rei continued to pursue in this 1991 work an earlier style described by Francis Blakemore in 1975 as follows:| The texture of the woodblock itself creates dappled tones and fragile shades. The works are light, yet the source of the light is hidden behind fences and arches. It is a light defined by shadows, creating a mood of timeless suspension. Leafless branches cast foreground shadows, mysteriously real and abstract, stark and delicate. The texture of the block, structural unity of the geometric ground figures, subdued coloration and shading, and magical, waving forms together create a locus, a place that is both definite and infinite, haunting and unassuming, vague and too vivid to be mere fantasy. - Francis Blakemore (Who's Who in Modern Japanese Prints, Weatherhill, 1975, p. 247.) |
 H: 19 1/2 x W: 27 1/8 in, Carnegie Museum of Art 89.28.1146 |
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1567 |
| Title | Sound of the Wind (Kaze no hibiki 風のひびき) |
| Series | |
| Artist | Rei Yuki (1928-2003) |
| Signature | pencil signed by artist in 由木礼 |
| Seal | none |
| Publication Date | 1991 |
| Edition | 12 of 57 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Genre | sosaku-hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 13 3/8 x 19 (34 x 48.3 cm) |
| H x W Image | 10 7/8 x 16 3/8 (27.6 x 41.6 cm) |
| Collections This Print | |
| Reference Literature | Rei Yuki Complete Print Works Catalogue Raisonné [Yuki Rei zen hangashū], Rei Yuki, Reifū Shobō [玲風書房], 2005. |
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