Sea Serpent

Artist Akio Takamori (Japanese, 1950 - 2017)

Publisher The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date2008

MediumLithograph and inkjet print on Somerset enhanced coated archival paper

DimensionsImage: 34 3/4 × 21 3/4 inches (88.27 × 55.25 cm)
Sheet: 41 1/2 × 26 inches (105.41 × 66.04 cm)

Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger

Object number2023.40.89

SignedSigned below the image: Akio T------------ 2008

MarkingsSigned below the image: Sea Serpent 13/35

Edition/State/Proof13/35

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DescriptionA ceramic figure of a young man, seen from the hips up, occupies the center of the lower half of the print. He wears a black cap with a gold insignia above the center of the brim, a tan shirt, and black trousers. He has a line of facial hair under his lower lip and on his chin. A grey serpent swirls in concentric circles once around his neck and twice around his body. The serpent’s head and the rest of its body form a reverse-S shape above the man’s head. The snake faces left in profile with a long, red, forked, wavy tongue that goes from upper left to middle right. The serpent’s tail is seen next to the figure’s proper right hip.Provenance

Provenance

C. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

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