Modern | Sōsaku Hanga Mezzotint
Kaoru Saito’s 1981 mezzotint “裳礁の海 (Sea Reefs)” shows jagged shoreline stacks rising from dark water. Their folded white forms stand in sharp contrast to the black sea and sky, while waves break at their base and seabirds pass above. Saito’s mezzotint technique gives the rocks a sculptural presence and the scene a stark, graphic strength. 🌊🪶
- Year & Edition: 1981 · Ed. of 80 (44/80) (signed & editioned in pencil to plate; titled & dated in pencil to margin).
- Medium: Mezzotint.
- Dimensions: Sheet H: 34.00 cm × W: 25.75 cm; Image H: 19.50 cm × W: 12.00 cm.
- Condition: Beautiful; image face unblemished; paper clean, crisp & intact.
- Notes: The Sea of Reefs is a rarer landscape subject within Kaoru Saito’s work, more often devoted to figures. Unlike Saito’s quieter, solemn figure studies, this dramatic seascape shows his technique applied to natural force, the sculptural rocks set against the movement of the sea.
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