Portraits Of Jennie By Yasushi Rikitake.108 ((link)) [NEW]
There’s a haunting, cinematic quality to this piece. It drifts between nostalgia and longing, like a memory you can’t quite hold onto but can’t let go of. The piano feels both fragile and determined, as if Jennie herself is slowly coming into focus through mist and time.
Rikitake avoids primary colors in most of his work, but in .108, he allows a single, shocking stroke of vermilion on the lower lip. Not painted on the lip, but bleeding off of it. Art historians have compared this to the "ukiyo-e" tradition of printing imperfections, where a misplaced registration block becomes an emotional cue. Here, the bleeding lip suggests a woman who has just spoken—or just been kissed in a different century. Portraits Of Jennie By Yasushi Rikitake.108
Specific catalog entries within his broader "Jennie" project. Market and Rarity Upon its release in There’s a haunting, cinematic quality to this piece
If you are looking for a specific volume or a physical copy, these are typically sought after by collectors of Japanese photography and vintage gravure media from sites like Amazon Japan. Rikitake avoids primary colors in most of his work, but in
When you stand before , the first emotion is not admiration—it is vertigo.