Sep 21, 2021 - Sale 2579

Sale 2579 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

YASUO KUNIYOSHI (1889-1953)


Girl and Boy.
Pencil on paper. 280x215 mm; 11x8 1/2 inches. Signed "Yasuo Kuniyoshi (by S.M.K.)" by Sara M. Kuniyoshi, the artist's wife, in pencil, lower right recto. Circa 1920s.

Provenance: Artist's estate, New York; thence to Sara M. Kuniyoshi, Woodstock, until 1986.

Reproduced in Yasuo Kuniyoshi papers, 1906-2016, bulk 1920-1990. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Box 5, folder 19.

With— Circus Performer Balanced on a Ball, lithograph. 359x260 mm; 14 1/8x10 1/4inches, full margins. Edition of 100. Printed by George Miller, New York. 1930.

Davis 49.