About This Print
This print is a fine example of the artist's "white-line style."1 While Kendall H. Brown, in his notes to the artist's print American Girl B, 1954, credits the artist's 1953 print Number Twelve as his first abstract female nude using a white-line style, No. 6, which also uses white for the figure's contour, predates it.The model's semi-abstracted body has been given an almost bronze-like finish by Yoshida and the work is very Picasso-like.
1 A Japanese Legacy: Four Generations of Yoshida Family Artists, Laura W. Allen, Kendall H. Brown, Eugene M. Skibbe, et. al., The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2002, p. 91.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #202 |
| Title | (Nude) No. 6 |
| Series | |
| Artist | Yoshida Tōshi (1911-1995) |
| Signature | Toshi Yoshida in English in bottom margin |
| Seal | not sealed |
| Publication Date | 1952 |
| Edition | original edition |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Printer | |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative prints) |
| Format | oban-tate |
| H x W Paper | 16 1/4 x 11 in. (41.3 x 28 cm ) |
| H x W Image | 14 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (36.8 x 24.5 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art 2003.168; LosAngeles County Museum of Modern Art M.86.147.194 |
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