Kikuji Kawada
Chizu -- The Map. Designed by Kohei Sugiura. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965.
Estimate: 10.000 - 15.000 GBP
Price realised: 12.500 GBP
Price realised: 12.500 GBP
Description
KIKUJI KAWADA
Chizu -- The Map. Designed by Kohei Sugiura. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965.
Octavo (230 x 150 mm). 49 black and white photographs, 23 4-panel black and white gatefolds, folded broadside on brown paper laid-in. Original black paper-covered boards, original illustrated dust-jacket printed recto and verso, original printed die-cut paper chemise, original printed cardboard slipcase (dust-jacket with very light wear at the extremities, slipcase spine lightly browned as often).
FIRST EDITION. 'THE MOST BRILLIANTLY DESIGNED JAPANESE BOOK OF ITS CENTURY' (Keyes), it is 'an extraordinarily refined, avant-garde book object' (101 Books). The Map is the defining photobook of post-war Japan, and 'the ultimate photobook-as-object' -- 'no photobook has been more successful in combining graphic design with complex photographic narrative'; 'Kawada's photographs are a masterly amalgam of abstraction and realism... [he] has conjured up a brilliant simile for the photograph itself -- scientific record, memory trace, cultural repository, puzzle and guide' (The Photobook). An excellent example of a very fragile book. 101 Books, pp.174-77; Auer, p.445; Keyes, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan 66; The Open Book, pp.212-13; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.286-87; Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, pp.86-93.
Chizu -- The Map. Designed by Kohei Sugiura. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965.
Octavo (230 x 150 mm). 49 black and white photographs, 23 4-panel black and white gatefolds, folded broadside on brown paper laid-in. Original black paper-covered boards, original illustrated dust-jacket printed recto and verso, original printed die-cut paper chemise, original printed cardboard slipcase (dust-jacket with very light wear at the extremities, slipcase spine lightly browned as often).
FIRST EDITION. 'THE MOST BRILLIANTLY DESIGNED JAPANESE BOOK OF ITS CENTURY' (Keyes), it is 'an extraordinarily refined, avant-garde book object' (101 Books). The Map is the defining photobook of post-war Japan, and 'the ultimate photobook-as-object' -- 'no photobook has been more successful in combining graphic design with complex photographic narrative'; 'Kawada's photographs are a masterly amalgam of abstraction and realism... [he] has conjured up a brilliant simile for the photograph itself -- scientific record, memory trace, cultural repository, puzzle and guide' (The Photobook). An excellent example of a very fragile book. 101 Books, pp.174-77; Auer, p.445; Keyes, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan 66; The Open Book, pp.212-13; The Photobook, vol. I, pp.286-87; Kaneko & Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, pp.86-93.
Auction result well in line with expectations
The work Chizu -- The Map. Designed by Kohei Sugiura. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965. by Kawada Kikuji was auctioned at Christies in London in May 2010. The price achieved of GBP 12,500.00 (€ 14,645.48) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as GBP 10,000.00 – 15,000.00. Other works by Kawada Kikuji have already achieved higher auction prices, for example, in May 2008 the work Woman of Sankt Pauli from 'Sei naru sekai -- Sacré Atavism', 25 June 1969 was auctioned for GBP 18,500.00 (€ 23,532.81).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Die Arbeit Chizu -- The Map. Designed by Kohei Sugiura. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965. von Kawada Kikuji kam im Mai 2010 bei Christies in London zur Auktion. Der dabei erzielte Preis von GBP 12.500,00 (€ 14.645,48) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit GBP 10.000,00 – 15.000,00 angegeben worden. Andere Arbeiten von Kawada Kikuji konnten bereits höhere Auktionspreise erzielen, so wurde im Mai 2008 die Arbeit Woman of Sankt Pauli from 'Sei naru sekai -- Sacré Atavism', 25 June 1969 für GBP 18.500,00 (€ 23.532,81) versteigert.
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