Minimalist Abstract Japanese Woodblock Print – Haku Maki "Work 8105" (1978)

Artist: Haku Maki (1924–2000)
Title: Work 8105
Medium: Woodblock print (embossing not confirmed)
Year: 1978
Edition: 5/111
Image size: 64 × 23 cm
Paper size: Please inquire
Condition: Excellent vintage condition. (Please revise if your inspection reveals otherwise.)
Signed: Pencil signed, numbered, and bearing the artist's red seal.

Notes:
With only a handful of carefully placed forms, Work 8105 demonstrates Haku Maki's remarkable ability to create balance through restraint. A bold black shape, a slender diagonal band, and a single gold circle occupy a field of quiet white space, inviting the eye to slow down and appreciate the subtle relationships between form, proportion, and empty space. It is a composition that reveals more the longer one spends with it—calm, deliberate, and unmistakably Japanese in its economy of means.

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