Toshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1911-1995), Sacred Grove

Lot Details & Additional Photographs

1941, woodblock print, artist's signature above a red artist seal to lower left corner of image, in upper left margin is the artist jizari above the date and title of the print in Japanese, in the lower margin is the title in English and artist signature, presented under glass with mat in a honey colored wood frame.

Frame dimensions 14 3/4 x 12 in., Sight size 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.

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 condition; overall even toning to margins; not examined outside of the frame.