Toshi Yoshida, "Sea Fishes" (PS)

Set against coral, a group of exotic fish are shown in deep green/blue colored water. A large and strikingly colored design from Toshi's travels in Hawaii. A first-state, pencil-signed edition of a rare woodblock print from Toshi's American series.

Date: 1975
Size: Dai-oban (approx. 13" x 19")
First-state, pencil-signed 
Condition: Fine color and condition

Toshi Yoshida (1911-1995) is one of the twentieth century's most important woodblock print artists. Toshi is part of a long and famous line of past and present artists whose influence and popularity persist to this day. His father, Hiroshi Yoshida, was a master painter and woodblock print artists at the height of the shin-hanga print movement.