Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997)Japanese, Woodblock Print

Vintage woodblock print on paper from the series 'Winter in Aizu', seal and pencil-signed. The works of Kiyoshi Saito were influenced by the cultural legacies of northern Japan and also sometimes by its scarce landscape. A certain folksy-archaic roughness and a simultaneous expressionist abstraction give them a distinctive sense of contemporary printing. Saito also stayed true to the traditional Japanese techniques. He connected them, however, to modern two dimensional geometric principles.Overall size: 14 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. Sight size: 10 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.