YOSHIDA HIROSHI (1876-1950)

Ship at Harima Shipyard

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YOSHIDA HIROSHI (1876-1950)
Ship at Harima Shipyard
Signed Hiroshi Yoshida in Japanese
Oil on canvas, framed
23 ¼ x 30 ¾ in. (59.1 x 78.1 cm.)
With original frame inscribed Harima zosenjo giso senpaku (Ship at Harima Shipyard) Yoshida Hiroshi Gahaku and dated March 1944 on reverse

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Lot Essay

Series of Yoshida’s oil paintings were recently discovered in Aioi City, Hyogo Prefecture. It is known that Yoshida stayed at Harima shipyard in Aioi City during 1944-1945 and worked on many of his paintings with the motifs related to Harima shipyard. The current work may be one of the paintings Yoshida worked during that time in Aioi City.

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