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Date : 1955
Size : 32 × 22 cm
Detail : ed25 / Engraving / Mezzotint / With mat board
Komai learned copperplate engraving from Nishida Takeo and got a prize of Shunyo-Kai. In the next year, he got a prize at the first São Paulo Art Biennial.
Komai was highly appreciated even in the oversea with Munakata Shiko, and it enabled him to make a spectacular debut in the Japanese art field after WWⅡ.
His artwork had an impact on a lot of Japanese print artists, as a pioneer of the copperplate field.
This artwork was created in 1955 and Komai was 34 years old.
In the year before, he passed the examination of privately financed international students by the France government and he went to France.
Also, He entered the national art university and learned the copperplate engraving. The church in this print seems that it is in France.