anti-qs Store PART OF A ART COLLECTION FROM AWW2 , KOREAN WAR ,US NAVY COMMANDERS ESTATE WHOSERVED ALL OVER THE WORLD 1940\'s - 60\'s .FOOT LOCKER STORED FOR YEARS THIS IS AA SHARP PAIR OF MID - CENTURY MODERN , RETRO...\" EARLY CAT \"VINTAGE ( 3 COLORS )BY : KIYOSHI SAITOBOTH WITH HIS NAME IN CHOP . FROM : OCCUPIED JAPANTHIS APPEARS TO BE A EARLY WORK BEFORE HELEARNED TO MAKE BIG NUMBERED RUNS OF PRINTS AND THIS HAD BEEN CREATED ONE AT A TIMEBY HAND AND I THINK TO HAVE BEEN MADE FROMONE SHEET OF MULBERRY PAPERTHEN HAND PULLED APART IN THE MIDDLE . THE TWO HAVE NEVER BEEN TRIMMED .YOU CAN SEE THE PAPER\'S UNIFORM DRYING RACK MARKSIN THE MULBERRY PAPER .SOFTLY BLOCK PRINTED WITH NO BACK BLEEDING .IF YOU LOOK YOU CAN SEE WHITE ON THE FACEON THE SIDEWAYS ,ONE EYED CAT,THAT I THINK IT IS AGOOD CLUE OF HAND PRINTING .OF THE FEW OTHER EXAMPLE OF THISBLOCK PRINT I HAVE SEEN THEY DON\'THAVE THAT WHITE PLACEMENT OF COLORON THE ONE EYED CATS FACE . THE BACKGROUNDSRAIN LIKE LINES PLACEMENTS ARE DIFFERENTALONG WITH MANY OTHER SMALLBLOCK PLACEMENT DIFFERENCES .WONDERFUL INTERACTION EXPRESSIONSFROM 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 .MORE INFORMATION ON ARTIST :Kiyoshi Saito - 1907-1997

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.

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