NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO

NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO
NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO

PART OF A ART COLLECTION FROM A WW2 , KOREAN WAR , US NAVY COMMANDERS ESTATE WHO SERVED ALL OVER THE WORLD 1940's - 60's. FOOT LOCKER STORED FOR YEARS THIS IS A A SHARP PAIR OF MID - CENTURY MODERN , RETRO... " EARLY CAT " VINTAGE (3 COLORS) BY : KIYOSHI SAITO BOTH WITH HIS NAME IN CHOP. FROM : OCCUPIED JAPAN THIS APPEARS TO BE A EARLY WORK BEFORE HE LEARNED TO MAKE BIG NUMBERED RUNS OF PRINTS AND THIS HAD BEEN CREATED ONE AT A TIME BY HAND AND I THINK TO HAVE BEEN MADE FROM ONE SHEET OF MULBERRY PAPER THEN HAND PULLED APART IN THE MIDDLE. THE TWO HAVE NEVER BEEN TRIMMED.

YOU CAN SEE THE PAPER'S UNIFORM DRYING RACK MARKS IN THE MULBERRY PAPER. SOFTLY BLOCK PRINTED WITH NO BACK BLEEDING. IF YOU LOOK YOU CAN SEE WHITE ON THE FACE ON THE SIDEWAYS , ONE EYED CAT, THAT I THINK IT IS A GOOD CLUE OF HAND PRINTING. OF THE FEW OTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS BLOCK PRINT I HAVE SEEN THEY DON'T HAVE THAT WHITE PLACEMENT OF COLOR ON THE ONE EYED CATS FACE. THE BACKGROUNDS RAIN LIKE LINES PLACEMENTS ARE DIFFERENT ALONG WITH MANY OTHER SMALL BLOCK PLACEMENT DIFFERENCES.

WONDERFUL INTERACTION EXPRESSIONS FROM TWO WISE SIAMESE CATS. SIZE : TWO EYED CAT : PRINT BY ITSELF 19 X 13 3/4 INCH. OVER ALL : 24 1/2 X 18 INCH. ONE EYED CAT :PRINT BY ITSELF 19 X 13 3/4 INCH. OVER ALL :24 1/2 BY 19 INCH. 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.

Today he is regarded as one of the great masters of modern Japanese printmaking after the end of the war in 1945. Check out my other items.

The item "NR ORIGINAL VTG PAIR EARLY CATS 2 JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY KIYOSHI SAITO" is in sale since Monday, October 05, 2015. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Vintage, Retro, Mid-Century\1950s". The seller is "anti-qs" and is located in Decatur, Alabama. This item can be shipped worldwide.

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