Lot Essay
Milking the Cow was Kuniyoshi's first lithograph.
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YASUO KUNIYOSHI
Railroad (D. L45)
lithograph, 1928, on Chine appliqué, signed and dated '28' in pencil, numbered 15/28, with full margins, pale light-staining, unobtrusive scattered foxing showing in the margins, glued to the overmat in places in the top and bottom margins, other minor defects, framed; and Milking the Cow (D. L 1) -- lithograph with hand-coloring in crayons, 1922, on wove paper, signed in pencil, inscribed 'This is first Lithograph I ever sold/Love and Kisses/Yas 1930' on the reverse, with wide margins, light-staining, minor surface soiling, old cellophane tape along the reverse of the top margin edge, other minor defects, framed (2)
Railroad (D. L45)
lithograph, 1928, on Chine appliqué, signed and dated '28' in pencil, numbered 15/28, with full margins, pale light-staining, unobtrusive scattered foxing showing in the margins, glued to the overmat in places in the top and bottom margins, other minor defects, framed; and Milking the Cow (D. L 1) -- lithograph with hand-coloring in crayons, 1922, on wove paper, signed in pencil, inscribed 'This is first Lithograph I ever sold/Love and Kisses/Yas 1930' on the reverse, with wide margins, light-staining, minor surface soiling, old cellophane tape along the reverse of the top margin edge, other minor defects, framed (2)