Limited Edition Print — Untitled (Lamp), Norinaka Suzuki, 1984 (Copy)

Artist: Norinaka Suzuki (Japanese, 20th century)
Title: Untitled (Lamp)
Medium: Silkscreen / Serigraph on paper
Year: 1984
Edition: 5/15
Image size: 44 cm × 33 cm
Paper size: 54 cm × 39 cm
Condition: Excellent vintage condition; minor handling wear consistent with age
Signed: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil by the artist

Notes: A vivid limited-edition silkscreen by Japanese artist Norinaka Suzuki, part of his celebrated lamp series exploring domestic form through bold pattern, flattened space, and ornamental abstraction. This 1984 composition pushes further into theatrical geometry, combining a stylized oil lamp with an exaggerated checkerboard ground and repeating decorative backdrop that creates a playful but destabilized sense of perspective.

Suzuki’s work blends elements of Japanese folk design, Pop graphic sensibility, and postwar decorative abstraction, transforming ordinary household objects into striking symbolic forms. In this example, the heightened contrast of turquoise, pink, blue, and black gives the piece an especially dynamic visual rhythm, making it one of the more architecturally assertive works in the series.

A strong and uncommon example of Suzuki’s mature graphic language, rarely seen outside Japan.