Yoshida | Golden Pagoda in Rangoon
吉田博 Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)
仰光之金塔
Golden Pagoda in Rangoon
1931
木版画 | 横绘大大判 | 26cm x 39cm
Woodblock-print | Large Oban Yoko-e | 26cm x 39cm
自摺；铅笔亲笔签名；品相近完美
Signed in brush and in pencil, with jizuri seal; great condition
$3,800
1930年11月，吉田博与其子远志踏上了前往印度及东南亚的旅途。远行前，他整整花了几个月以精心规划路线，只为能在这一站画上一整天后，就迅速坐夜车睡卧铺赶赴下一个目的地。此次旅行是吉田博的第四次海外之旅，在为他贡献源源不断创作素材的同时，也极大地开拓了画家的视野。共计32幅的“印度与东南亚”系列版画，便是他对这段时光最好的“总结汇报”。仰光大金塔，缅甸的国家象征，位于缅甸故都仰光的圣丁固达拉山上，据传始建于公元前585年。塔高112米，塔体经多次贴金，至今已合计用金逾7吨。每当清风徐来，塔周身悬挂着的上千枚金、银铃便会叮当作响，清脆悦耳，声传四方。吉田博对自摺之作有着近乎苛刻的要求。对待本作时，他会反复摺印多种浅色，只为能造出一片合乎心中所想的玫瑰金霞光。典型的热带季风景观中，圣丁固达拉山树木丰茂，不绝的游人缓步而行，前往高耸入云的大金塔。沐浴在阳光下的大金塔熠熠烁烁，分外璀璨，直将身影倒映入近景的漾漾水塘。水塘内外，朴实憨厚的水牛们分散作小群，或食草饮水，或泡澡歇凉，好不自由安稳。观画恍惚间，人间佛国似乎已经模糊了界限，圣塔在处，即是极乐。
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Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950)
Hiroshi Yoshida is perhaps the second best known Shin Hanga artist, after Hasui. Trained as a painter from a young age, he showed his work at the Detroit Museum of Art in 1899, making him among the first Japanese artists to gain a reputation in the United States. Eventually, like so many of his contemporaries, he worked for Watanabe Shozaburo producing landscape prints. While many were set in Japan, he traveled extensively and produced several wonderful designs of American subjects, such as New York skyscrapers, the Pittsburgh waterfront and national parks, and European subjects, such as Lake Como in Italy. His prints always had a distinctly painterly feel, as if they’d fallen off a watercolor brush.