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Norikane Hiroto
Early Afternoon2003

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Etching or engraving of two cat silhouettes viewed from behind, seated in a doorway framed by shoji screens, looking out onto tilled fields, a thatched farmhouse, tall conifers, and a distant mountain
Intaglio print in warm sepia tones; view through open shoji screens onto a rural landscape with thatched farmhouse, rice paddies, and tall conifers; two cats sit with their backs to the viewer on the sill in the foreground.

Norikane Hiroto, Early Afternoon, 2003, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Norikane Hiroto, Artist, CWAJ Print Show, 2003, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Norikane Hiroto
Japan, Hiroshima, born 1949
Title
Early Afternoon
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
2003
Period
Heisei period (1989-2019)
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and gouache
Dimensions
Image: 8 5/8 x 16 1/8 in. (21.91 x 40.96 cm); Sheet: 12 5/8 x 20 in. (32.07 x 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Norikane Hiroto, Artist, CWAJ Print Show, 2003
Accession Number
M.2004.123
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Copyright
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