The Guest of Winter [working proof 4]
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etching with flat bite on wove Somerset paper [working proof 4]
Dimensions
plate: 43.3 × 36.2 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/4 in.) sheet: 55.4 × 46.3 cm (21 13/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.295
About the Artist
Katsura Funakoshi
Katsura Funakoshi (born 1951 in Akita, Japan) is one of the most distinctive sculptors working in contemporary Japanese art, celebrated for his hauntingly serene figurative works that seem to inhabit a space between the human and the otherworldly. He studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai), where he was immersed in both Western sculptural traditions and the deep herita...