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Blue Sky by Kiyoshi Nagai

Blue Sky by Kiyoshi Nagai

Blue Sky

Kiyoshi Nagai

Title

Blue Sky

 
Artist

Kiyoshi Nagai

  1911 - 1984 (biography)
Year
1970  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
17 1/8 x 13 5/8" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
numbered 157 - 30 
Annotations
titled in English and Japanese, editioned and dated in pencil in margin. 
Reference
 
Paper
heavy, antique-white Uwa-Senka Japanese. 
State
published 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
GEBO111 
Price
SOLD
Description
who is better known under his other name, Hiroyuki Tajima which he used to create his abstract, colored dye saturated woodcuts. Kiyoshi Nagai, who is better known under his other name, Hiroyuki Tajima which he used to create his abstract, colored dye saturated woodcuts.(see 'Modern Japanese Prints' by Frances Blakemore). The artist was born in Tokyo and had studied Western painting at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. He started with woodblock prints in 1946. Kiyoshi Nagai used the name Hiroyuki Tajima for his more abstract, modern prints and Kiyoshi Nagai for figurative landscape prints. His usual edition size was 50. He took part in the International Tokyo Print Biennale and was a member of the Japanese Print Association (JPA).