Kiyoshi Saito (1907-1997)Japanese, Woodblock Print

'Winter in Aizu', wood block print, signed and sealed lower left. 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: 18 x 23 in. Sight size: 11 x 16 in.