Toshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1911-95), Heirinji, Temple Bell and Silver Pavilion- Kyoto

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

Includes two woodblock prints, the first Heirinji, Temple Bell, dated 1951 in the left hand margin, title and artist signature to lower margin, red seal to lower right corner of image (Frame dimensions 19 1/4 x 14 in., Sight size 15 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.), and Silver Pavilion- Kyoto, dated 1951 in the left hand margin, but may be a later printing, title and artist signature printed to lower margin (Frame dimensions 20 1/2 x 15 1/4 in., Sight size 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.), both presented framed with mats under glass.

Toshi Yoshida was a distinguished Japanese woodblock printmaker and painter, renowned for his contributions to the shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga movements. Born in Tokyo as the eldest son of the esteemed artist Hiroshi Yoshida, he was immersed in an artistic environment from an early age. Due to polio-induced paralysis in his leg, Tōshi was unable to attend formal schooling and instead spent his childhood observing animals and assisting in his father's printmaking workshop. In the 1930s, he started creating landscape paintings and prints similar to his father's works, and the two artists traveled together, painting side by side. Yoshida went on to have a long and diverse career producing oil paintings, abstract woodcuts, and detailed woodblock prints of animals.

Good estate condition; not examined outside of the frames.