<b>AUTUMN</b> / Chizuko Yoshida1955<b>SOLD</b></em>

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Before marrying Hodaka Yoshida in 1953, Chizuko was a serious artist who studied under Koshiro Onchi and Fumio Kitaoka and had a close association with Okamoto Taro, a leading avant-garde artist and critic. By the mid-1950s, Chizuko was working almost exclusively in abstraction in both oil painting and woodblock prints. After her marriage to Hodaka, the Yoshidas traveled around the world producing and exhibiting their artwork. Chizuko’s own work is a synthesis of a refined Japanese aesthetic underlying a variety of modern and contemporary international styles.

“Autumn” was produced after Chizuko’s brief study with the Sosaku Hanga artist Koshiro Onchi. This work, a design comprised in pure abstraction, brings to mind a diverse variety of leaves assembled together. The composition is tight, focused and potent. The work is a study of color, shape as well as texture.

Connoisseur's Note

Chizuko Yoshida’s woodblock prints from this period are quite scarce, as she did not produce work in large quantities. Making this print even more desirable, this impression was never framed or displayed for extended periods of time ensuring the colors are in a pristine state of preservation, appearing as vivid today as they were the day the work was produced.