Catalog record · 目録番号 108806
Lanterns and Maples
Catalog note / 解説
Offered for sale is a wonderful, pencil signed (and thus lifetime impression), woodblock by Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995), titled Lanterns and Maples. It depicts a garden in Mitake and according to the Yoshida Hanga catalogue, the blocks were self-cut by Toshi himself. In the left margin, embossed in Japanese is the date 1963. It is from Toshi Yoshida's "white-line" garden print series, in which Toshi used a white outline rather than the traditional black outline. According to Eugene M. Skibbe in his seminal book Yoshida Toshi: Nature, Art and Peace, in this series of prints Toshi incorporated ideas from his earlier abstract oil painting and prints into otherwise traditional material. Toshi Yos…
Image record / 画像情報
Artelino · 1964. · artelino
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