Medium: 3 Color Lithograph with chine collé
Edition: 24
Paper: Arches Cover, White with Okawara chine collé
Paper Size: 24.75″ x 33.5″
Image Size: 20.25″ x 29.75″
“My own first erotic pieces were naïve, too romantic,” notes Takamori. Like many male artists, he idealized the female form, creating in his early work many images of what he calls “quiet joy.” These reclining women are pure objects of male desire: desire for the infinite pleasures of fleshly communion, desire for simple touch or even a return to the womb.
The image was drawn directly on a stone and two plates by the artist using rubbing ink, tusche, litho crayon and pencil. Okawara paper was collaged to the Arches paper prior to printing. The printing was done by hand on a direct pressure flatbed press. Each print is signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. The L.L.W. chop is stamped on the lower left margin. The stone and plates were cancelled 11-27-96.
