Kiyoshi Saito ART FOR SALE

1907 Fukushima Prefecture, Japan - 1997. Known for: Woodblock prints and ink drawing-portraits, landscape, animals and still life.

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Japanese artist Kiyoshi Saito did not have it easy. Nature endowed him with an impulse for art and the drive to make the impossible possible. Saito studied European artists to recognize the qualities in the Japanese tradition itself, for which the modern international trends strive. His woodblock prints using traditional Japanese technique are among the most sought after pieces in the art market. Kiyoshi Saito was born in 1907 in a small village named Bange in the Kawanuma District of the Fukushima prefecture in the northern part of Honshu, the main Japanese island. When he was five years old, his father lost his business in Fukushima and the family moved further north to the island of Hokkaido, where his father worked in the coal mines in... Read full biography

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Garden Syugakuin, Kyoto

Type:Print/graphic art

Size:21.75" x 28.50"

Medium:Woodblock

Signed:Signed and Dated

Edition:Edition of 70

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Image dimensions 17.5 x 23.5, full margins, deckled edges, fine condition with self carved self printed label attached verso. See other Sosaku hanga prints on theartofjapan.com

Price: $1,250. Please contact Douglas Frazer Fine Art, Ltd.