Description: 18 3/8 inches and 25 inches in size Found in an estate of an art collector in Palm Beach in a tube for posters Signed Information of the artist Biography Print artist. Hoshi was born in Niigata Prefecture in the north of Honshu. He went with his family to Taiwan (then part of the Japanese empire) and graduated from a teachers' college there in 1932. In 1946 he was repatriated and began to take up printmaking as a result of working in a printing-shop, starting with silk screen, in which technique he won a prize at the Japanese Print Association as early as 1949, becoming a member in 1952. He turned to woodblock, studying at the course at Musashino University of Arts and graduating in 1956. From 1959 he began to exhibit at the Tokyo International Print Biennale with abstract works related to the dominant 'Sosaku Hanga' style of the time. He also taught calligraphy during this period. From 1967 he began to exhibit in the West, and from 1964 his subjects gradually changed to stars and constellations done in a heavily Expressionistic style, exploring in an ever more individual manner the possibilities of woodblock. His 'Constellation' series (1964-7) eventually reached forty-two prints. In the late 1960s he discovered his final and definitive theme of trees, reverting to a detailed naturalism of dazzling technical complexity, allied to the use of gold and silver and brilliant colours. The tree prints finally amounted to 163 sheets, nearly half of his entire graphic output. In 1977 he went on a sketching tour to Mongolia, which literally widened the horizons of his prints. Since his death his reputation has risen rapidly both in Japan and the West.
Price: 1000 USD
Location: North Palm Beach, Florida
End Time: 2024-07-21T17:12:53.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Primary Material: Paper
Color: Red
Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original
Region of Origin: Japan
Age: 1963
Maker: Joichi Hoshi
