SAITO KIYOSHI (1907-1997)

UNTITLED (CLAY IMAGE) CORAL STEADY GAZE PARIS (A) UNTITLED (YOUNG GIRL) UNTITLED (TWO SIAMESE CATS) UNTITLED (TWO SIAMESE CATS) UNTITLED (DACHSHUND)

Details
SAITO KIYOSHI (1907-1997)
Untitled (Clay image)
Coral
Steady gaze Paris (A)
Untitled (Young girl)
Untitled (Two Siamese cats)
Untitled (Two Siamese cats)
Untitled (Dachshund)
Woodcut, each signed in Roman script Kiyoshi Saito, most with paper slip affixed to verso printed in Roman letters Self-carved self-printed Kiyoshi Saito, the first inscribed in pencil Design Made in 1954 Printed in 1955, numbered 15/40, 33.1/8 x 21.3/8in. (84 x 54.3cm.); the second numbered 72/100 and dated 1955, 21.3/8 x 16.1/8in. (54.3 x 40.9cm.); the third numbered 4/120, dated 1960, 23 x 13.7/8in. (59.7 x 35.2cm.); the fourth numbered 29/50, n.d., 17 x 27.5/8in. (43.9 x 57.6cm.); the fifth inscribed in pencil Design Made in 1954 Printed in 1955, numbered 58/80, 16 x 23in. (42.5 x 59cm.); the sixth signed and dated Kiyoshi Saito 55 and in Japanese Saito Kiyoshi, numbered 94/200, 16 x 19.7/8in. (40.8 x 50.6cm.); the seventh unsigned, sealed Kiyoshi, inscribed in pencil Design Made in 1954, Printed in 1955, numbered 40/80, 16 x 23in. (42.5 x 59cm.), most with minor tape stains on edges, some slightly stained and creased (7)
Provenance
The fourth, Dr. Robert Jerry, San Francisco

Lot Essay

For another impression of the first see Saito Kiyoshi, Saito Kiyoshi no sekai (The world of Saito Kiyoshi) (Nagano: Asuka shobo, 1984), pl. 71; Wood Cut Prints Kiyoshi Saito (Tokyo: Kiyoshi Saito Studio, n.d. [1957]), inside back cover; of the second see Wood Cut Prints Kiyoshi Saito (Tokyo: Kiyoshi Saito Studio, n.d. [1957]), front cover.