Kiyoshi Saitō, Children II, Circa 1960

Description

Artist: Kiyoshi Saito (Japanese, 1907-1997)
Title: Children II
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Color woodcut
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Japan
Image (block … more Artist: Kiyoshi Saito (Japanese, 1907-1997)
Title: Children II
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Color woodcut
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Japan
Image (block mark) size: 9.85 x 5.35 inches
paper size: 17 x 11.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Condition: excellent
Frame: Custom framed in a bamboo black wash frame, with fabric matting.
Framed size is 20.75 x 14.75 inches


About the artist.

Kiyoshi Saito was one of the first artists of the Japanese sosaku hanga movement whose art became successful and was widely accepted and awarded by an international audience. In 1948, he exhibited at the Salon Printemps, and in 1951 received first prize for Steady Gaze at the inaugural Sao Paolo Bienniale. This event brought the modern school of Japanese prints to prominence. Today he is regarded as one of the great masters of modern Japanese printmaking after the end of the war in 1945. less