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| Artist: | Yoshida Aguri (A. Yoshida, watercolour) — 吉田あぐり |
| Title: | Waterfall |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| 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: | 41956 |
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Large Hiroshi Yoshida Japanese Watercolor Painting
For your consideration, a beautiful watercolor painting by world renowned artist Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1955). The scene is a majestic waterfall from the Japan Alps masterfully executed in subtle colors on a ivory stock with white highlights in the water. Simply gorgeous! Yoshida traveled to and exhibited in America many times beginning in 1899. He is one of the most famous Japanese artists of the 20th century, many of his prints and paintings are in museums and collections all over the globe.
• Signed: by the artist "H Yoshida" in watercolor
• Size: approximately 26" wide x 40" long framed, no glass
• Condition: Paper has been laid down on board, small tear about an inch wide along upper right edge, both conditions can be economically addressed by a qualified paper conservator. |
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| 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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