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YASUO KUNIYOSHI (1889-1953)
Wire Performer. Lithograph. 403x302 mm; 15 7/8x11 7/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 100. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Printed by George Miller, New York. 1938.
A very good impression. Davis 75.
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.
