Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints
Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints
Saito Kiyoshi (1907-1997) | Milk | Showa period, 20th century
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November 18, 03:43 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Saito Kiyoshi (1907-1997)
Milk
Showa period, 20th century
woodblock print, embellished with metallic pigment, signed in pencil in Roman script Kiyoshi Saito, titled, numbered and dated in pencil to the bottom margin Milk, 26/50, 1949, the reverse sealed Kiyoshi and with paper slip affixed to the reverse Self-carved self printed K. Saito and sealed Kiyoshi
36.5 x 29.8 cm., 14⅜ x 11¾ in.
Saito's work garnered a following among Americans who visited Japan during the Occupation. He soon exhibited his work around 1945 alongside his contempoaries Hiratsuka Un'ichi (1895-1997) and Kawanishi Hide (1894-1965) at a gallery near the Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel. A few years later he received his first prize for the present design Milk at the Salon Printemps Exhbition that had been organised by a circle of GHQ officials to support young Japanese artists in 1949.
For another impression of the same print in the Cleveland Art Museum, accession number 1985.497, go to: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.497