About This Print
An untitled scene of a lone figure plowing a field with an ox and a primitive looking plow. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria titles this print Ploughing the Rice Field. When it was released as part of an offering of six Saitō prints by the Book-of-the-Month Club, it was titled The Seasons: Spring. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art dates the print to 1971.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #984 |
| Title | untitled (Plowing the Rice Field) [English title sometimes seen as The Seasons: Spring or Plowing the Field]
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| Series | none
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Artist
| Saitō Kiyoshi (1907-1997) |
Signature
| Kiyoshi Saito |
| Seal | 清 Kiyoshi seal |
| Publication Date | not dated (c. 1960-1970)
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| Edition | unknown
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| Publisher | self-published (possibly by Book-of-the-Month Club, as discussed above) |
| Carver | self-carved |
| Printer | unknown |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent
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| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print)
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| Miscellaneous |
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| Format | dai oban
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| H x W Paper | 11 1/4 x 16 in. (28.6 x 40.6 cm)
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| H x W Image | 9 5/8 x 14 1/4 in. (24.4 x 36.2 cm)
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| Collections This Print | Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 1973.121.001; Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.2011.137.8; Arizona State University Museum ASUM 1972.033.001 |
| Reference Literature | Masterful Images: The Art of Kiyoshi Saito, Barry Till, Pomegranate Communications, 2013 p.69.
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