Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints
Landscape to City: A Collection of 20th Century Japanese Prints
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November 18, 03:44 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Saito Kiyoshi (1907-1997)
Two woodblock prints
Showa period, 20th century
each a woodblock print, signed in pencil in Roman script to the lower left Kiyoshi Saito, circa 1950, and comprising:
- Portait of Naoko, numbered to the lower left 19/50, sealed to the reverse Kiyoshi
- Children of Aizu in snow, with paper slip affixed to the reverse Self-carved self printed K. Saito and sealed Kiyoshi, titled in pencil in Roman script Children with garden radish, and in Japanese Daikon no aru yukigeshiki [A snow scene with radishes]
25.4. x 23.4 cm., 10 x 9¼ in. (the first)
23.1 x 30 cm., 9⅛ x 11½ in. (the second)
For a different impression of the first print in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, accession number 1965.68.48, go to: