The Modern Fruit Bowl Still Life – Click on the image for a larger view.
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Artifact 6 – Full Image, Bowl and Lemon Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University
Artifact 6 – Text Close-Up, signature
Artifact 6 – Text Close-Up, possible title information
Please identify the following information.
1. What is the printing process/technique used in this work? Is it indeed an etching?
2. Please transcribe the text in the second and third images. Is the text in the second image a signature? The collections staff has transcribed the text as Nobuo Satoh. Is this correct?
3. Does the handwriting in the second image match that of the third image? Is this the correct, official title of the work?
4. Is this artifact part of a series of genre/still life scenes?
Artifact 6 – Text Close-Up 2, A.P.
Artifact 6 – Text Close-Up 3
5. What does “A. P.” represent?
6. What does the string of numbers in the fifth image define?
7. Were you able to locate a date?
8. If you know the artist, can you identify the artist’s life dates and the date of this artifact within that range?
9. If you can identify the artist, can you tell us their preferred materials and methods for printing?
If you would like to provide us with additional resources, biographical or art historical, please list sources in the comments section.