Ikki Mitsuhashi

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An agave rosette fanning out from a pale square column with a single small white flower at its centre, against a pale yellow wall

Artist's edition · M no. 102 of 150

Ledger no. TR-06 · Colour

A Single Star

One star, at the centre.

Working title — for the artist's review

¥48,000approx. $305 · €266

L · 420 × 594 mm · Canson Edition Etching Rag · Hand-signed by the artist

Charged in Japanese yen. Other currencies are estimates at today's rate.

Sizes

30mm side margins · Balanced artist presentation top and bottom, with generous lower space reserved for signature and edition number

Each print is centred on the sheet with a fixed side margin, and a deeper lower margin reserved for the signature and edition number. M and XL match the two sizes the artist printed himself and continue his original edition numbers; S and L are new editions of 50 beginning at no. 1.

Paper

Three standard papers are offered on every print. Two more are available on request. Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth · Hahnemühle Torchon.

Signature
Sheet
420 × 594 mm
Image area
311.5 × 396 mm
Margins
sides 30 mm · top 81.5 mm · bottom 116.5 mm
Next number to be issued: 1 / 50

Story

Example text written by the studio, for the artist's review.

The leaves fan out in every direction — long, serrated, certain of themselves — and at the exact centre of all that reach, a single white flower opens. It is small. It would be easy to miss. And yet the whole photograph is arranged around it.

The column is pale and unremarkable; the wall is the colour of morning. Nothing competes. The agave's blades draw the eye outward and the flower draws it back, and the picture lives in that quiet tug between the two.

There are people like this: not loud, not large, but somehow the point around which everything else finds its place. The photograph does not insist on the comparison. It simply leaves the flower where it is, and lets the eye return.

Details

Medium
Archival pigment print (giclée)
Paper
Canson Edition Etching Rag · Hahnemühle German Etching · Takeo Kakita
Edition
S: 50 · M: 150 (C/S) · L: 50 · XL: 100 (C/L)Numbers already sold in the artist's original edition are recorded in the ledger and never reissued.
Certificate of authenticity
Included with every print, bilingual, numbered
Shipping
Domestic about 7 days (10–14 days signed). International about 2 weeks (2–3 weeks signed).
Master
Master file is a CMYK press separation (EQ_WCP3 profile). Converted to sRGB via the embedded profile for the web; the lab must test-print from a converted RGB file before sale.