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Yasui Maruo
Buried Shape B2003

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Vertical print combining a central black and white fish-head image on a deep brick-red field, with white looping linear marks radiating along a vertical axis and outward across the surface
Print on red-orange ground with a central black intaglio rectangle depicting a close-up fish head with detailed scales and a large eye, overlaid by a vertical column of white gestural splatter and looping linear marks extending above and below.

Yasui Maruo, Buried Shape B, 2003, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Yasui Maruo, Artist, CWAJ Print Show, 2003, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Yasui Maruo
Japan, Tokyo, born 1937
Title
Buried Shape B
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
2003
Period
Heisei period (1989-2019)
Medium
Woodblock and collograph print
Dimensions
Image: 35 1/4 x 23 1/2 in. (89.54 x 59.69 cm); Sheet: 39 x 27 1/8 in. (99.06 x 68.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Yasui Maruo, Artist, CWAJ Print Show, 2003
Accession Number
M.2004.163
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Copyright
© artist or artist's estate