The image displays a woodblock print titled "Summer in Aizu" by the renowned Japanese artist Kiyoshi Saitō.
It depicts a rural Japanese village scene with a distinctive modern aesthetic.
- Artist: Kiyoshi Saitō (1907–1997).
- Style: Sōsaku-hanga (Creative Print) movement, focusing on self-expression and modern sensibilities.
- Subject: A scene from Aizu, Fukushima, likely referencing the artist's boyhood home.
- Details: Features a limited palette, bold simple forms, and textured flat areas of color.
Kiyoshi Saitō (斎藤 清, Saitō Kiyoshi, April 27, 1907 – November 14, 1997, born in Aizubange, Fukushima) was a sōsaku-hanga artist in 20th-century Japan. In 1938, he issued his first prints in his now famous "Winter in Aizu" series. Saitō was one of the first Japanese printmaking artists to have won at the São Paulo Biennale in 1951.[1] Saitō's early works depict villages populated with local Japanese with a high degree of realism and three-dimensionality. His more mature works merge modern elements with Japanese tradition. His prints feature architecture and plant life flattened in two-dimensionality.
Saito produced a series of woodblocks with farmhouses and villages, in the early 1970s.
This was purchased in Japan by my grandmother and framed in Lauguna Ca. in the same era. Framers name is on the back of original sealing paper
Edgy, mid-century modernistic approach.
Print has Saito's full signature and red seal.
Good original condition. Back of frame shows tears in the paper protecting the back of frame and print.
Please see photos as part of my description of condition and feel free to ask for any additional photos.
This Print is in good condition if I was keeping it I would re-matt it Frame is in beautiful shape and of hard wood
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