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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
YASUO KUNIYOSHI (1889-1953)
Semi-Nude, Standing. Lithograph. 378x279 mm; 14 7/8x11 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right in the image inside doorway, and numbered 10/30 in pencil, lower left. Printed by George Miller, New York. 1927.
A superb, dark and richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce lithograph.
We have not found another impression at auction in the past 30 years. Davis 20.
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.
