Champs de printemps (Field in Spring)
Minami Keiko, Champs de printemps (Field in Spring), 1954, color etching and aquatint on paper, The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection, © Musée Hamaguchi Yōzō, 83.57.278
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- Title
Champs de printemps (Field in Spring)
- Related Titles
original language: Champs de printemps
original language; variant: 春の平野
translated: Field in Spring
- Artist
Minami Keiko (Japanese, active France, United States, and Japan, 1911–2004)
- Date
1954
- Period
Japan: Shōwa period (1926-1989)
- Medium
color etching and aquatint on paper
- Edition
artist's proof
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 11 1/2 in x 12 11/16 in; sheet: 14 15/16 in x 22 5/16 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
annotation: 40160, graphite, bottom margin, right
annotation: Les Champs, graphite, verso
annotation: 16, graphite, verso
annotation: Les Champs, graphite [in a different hand], bottom margin, center Language: French
edition: épreuve d'artiste, graphite, lower left Language: French
signature: Keiko Minami, graphite, lower right
- Collection Area
Asian Art; Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
Japanese Modern Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection
- Accession Number
83.57.278
- Copyright
© Musée Hamaguchi Yōzō
- Terms
One of Minami’s earliest prints, Champs de printemps is an experimental composition with a quilt-like patchwork of motifs. She never returned to this format, preferring in her later works to zoom in on a few key elements, such as trees, birds, and—not seen here—figures of young girls.
- Exhibitions
2015 Breaking Barriers: Japanese Women Print Artists 1950-2000 Portland Art Museum