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YASUO KUNIYOSHI Japanese-American 1889-1953 Paper

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YASUO KUNIYOSHI Japanese-American 1889-1953 Paper
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Graphite on paper, featuring portrait of a male nude. Signed and attr. Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Japanese-American 1889-1953), signature on lower right margin. Signature in pencil on verso. 12 x 8.5 in. (30.5 x 21.6 cm). Kuniyoshi was known for his still-life paintings of common objects, and figurative subjects like female circus performers and nudes. Throughout Kuniyoshi’s career he had frequent changes in his art: methods and subject matter. Kuniyoshi’s application of Cubism’s angularity can be seen in his painting titled Little Joe with Cow (1923). In these early paintings, Kuniyoshi was painting from a combination of his memory and imagination, which is a Japanese mode of thinking about painting. Instead of painting from life, like in Western painting, traditional Japanese painters typically paint the ideal image of a particular subject matter. PROVENANCE: Local estate (Toronto, ON)