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| Artist: | Yoshida Aguri (A. Yoshida, watercolour) — 吉田あぐり |
| Title: | Pilgrim in Autumn |
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| Date of first edition?: | circa 1920-1950 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Watercolour |
| Medium (this edition): | Watercolour |
| Format (first edition): | Huge
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| Format (this edition): | Huge |
| DB artwork code: | 47331 |
| Notes (first edition)?: |
Clearly A Yoshida, not Hiroshi Yoshida.
Original watercolor on paper or paper board (not examined out of the framed) signed by " A. Yoshida ". The frame is original and is hand carved wood in very good condition with some nicks and scuffs.<< The painting itself measures 20 x 37 inches, overall size framed is 24 1/2 x 39 1/2 inches. Condition on the painting is very good, no foxing, no time or light stain, no scuffs or scratches. There is some very tiny specs of dust and debris under the glass. Not dated but judging from the age likely painted between 1935 and 1950. Verso is a Japanes Gallery label. |
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| Artist Bio: |
| Collectors often find it difficult to distinguish between the paintings of Arugi Yoshida and her brother-in-law, the far more famous Hiroshi Yoshida. However, careful examination of the painting's signature will allow consistently correct classification. There are several salient differences between their signatures, the main one being Hiroshi never signed his paintings using a curly 'Y' for Yoshida. The right leg of Hiroshi's 'Y' is always straight, and for 'A' Yoshida it is always curly. I've analysed dozens of Yoshida paintings and there are other differences, but the curly 'Y' is a dead giveaway for Aguri. Yoshida (as is the distorted first character, always a clearly defined 'H' in the case of Hiroshi). Aguri Yoshida almost always used all-caps (all upper case characters) for her watercolour signature, whereas Hiroshi only rarely used all-caps, thus if you have a Yoshida painting with a signature that uses a mix of upper and lower case characters you most likely are the lucky owner of a Hiroshi Yoshida painting. See further discussion here.
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