HIROSHI YOSHIDA: WISTERIA GARDEN

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HIROSHI YOSHIDA: WISTERIA GARDEN By Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950), signed Yoshida and sealed Hiroshi Japan, dated 1935 Color woodblock print on paper. Horizontal oban. Signed Yoshida and sealed Hiroshi, Jizuri (self-printed) seal to the left margin, further signed in Roman script to the outer-lower margin Hiroshi Yoshida. Title Fuji no niwa (Wisteria Garden), inscribed with the English title “Wisteria” and print number “197” in Roman script to the outer-lower margin. Cascading wisteria flowers frame a peaceful pond. The soft colors of the garden, with rocks and distant trees, evoke a serene and picturesque landscape. SIZE of the sheet 25.7 x 38.7 cm, SIZE incl. frame 44 x 56.7 cm With a wooden frame and glass for presentation. The jizuri seal is the most important mark on a Hiroshi Yoshida print as it helps distinguish an early edition where the printing process was directly supervised by him. Jizuri means "self-printed" and indicates that Hiroshi Yoshida played an active role in the printing process of the respective print. Hiroshi focused heavily on developing prints of the highest quality and normally only the prints with the best impressions received his jizuri seal. Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) began his artistic training with his adoptive father in Kurume, Fukuoka prefecture. Around the age of twenty, he left Kurume to study with Soritsu Tamura in Kyoto, subsequently moving to Tokyo and the tutelage of Shotaro Koyama. Yoshida studied Western-style painting, winning many exhibition prizes, and making several trips to the United States, Europe and North Africa selling his watercolors and oil paintings. While highly successful as an oil painter and watercolor artist, Hiroshi Yoshida turned to woodblock printmaking upon learning of the Western world’s infatuation with ukiyo-e. While widely traveled and knowledgeable of Western aesthetics, he maintained an allegiance to traditional Japanese techniques and traditions. Auction comparison: Compare a closely related print, also with the jizuri seal, at Christie’s, Japanese and Korean Art including the Collection of David and Nayda Utterberg, 22 March 2022, New York, lot 246 (sold for USD 1,890 or approx. EUR 2,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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