Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

YASUO KUNIYOSHI (1889-1953)


Aerialist.
Lithograph. 238x240 mm; 9 1/4x9 1/2 inches, wide margins. Edition of 30. Signed, dated and inscribed "30 proof" in pencil, lower margin. 1930.

A very good impression. Davis 50.

Kuniyoshi, born in Okayama, Japan came to the United States in 1906, settling in New York after briefly exploring the West Coast. During the mid-1930s, he worked in the graphics division of the Federal Arts Project while exhibiting his work internationally. Though his work was characterized as poetic and surreal, his fantastic scenes turned somber during World War II while he worked with the Office of War Information.