Kamaitachi #8

Artist Eikoh Hosoe (Japanese, 1933 - 2024)

Date1965

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 11 1/2 × 7 5/8 inches (29.21 × 19.37 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2017.68.77

SignedArtist’s stamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink: “Photo by / © EIKOH HOSOE”

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: “EHOS-00001-SP”; On sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: “80:134:10”

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DescriptionImage of man in profile crouched on the top rail of a tall wooden fence, which extends out into the middle of a grassy landscape. The sky fades from a dark black to white.Provenance

Provenance

The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

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