Maria Deguchi

Ascension

c. 1970s

Untitled Color woodcut, 1939 Unsigned as issued Signed and dedicated by the artist on the justification page (see photo) From: Abstractions By Charles Smith Forward by Carl O. Schnie...

Festival No. 6 Color woodblock, 2002 Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 50 (10/50), see photo Provenance: Ninion and Sheldon Landy Collection, Donors to A...

Festival No. 6 Color woodblock, 2002 Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 50 (10/50), see photo Provenance: Ninion and Sheldon Landy Collection, Donors to A...

Plate 12 From: 10 Origi, 1942 Signed in the block with the artist's initials lower left (printed) From: 10 Origin Not from the First edition 100, published by Allianz-Verlag, Zurich,...

Impression B Color woodcut, 1959 Signed and dated lower right (see photo) Titled lower left (see photo) A trial proof, prior to the edition of 100, signed and numbered Condition: Excellent Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist by decent to his heirs "Printmaker and painter Toshi Yoshida was born on July 25, 1911, into the respected Yoshida family of artists of Tokyo, Japan. Father Hiroshi was a celebrated landscape painter and printmaker, and mother Fujio established herself as the first female Yoshida artist as well as an Abstract artist later in her career. Younger brother Hodaka was an Abstract printmaker whose style, completely separate from his family's historic traditional bent, later influenced Toshi. Hodaka's wife Chizuko would become a pioneering female Japanese artist whose own exploration of Surrealism and Abstraction challenged the status quo. Toshi, however, as the eldest sibling, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps, and from an early age he was trained by Hiroshi in his studio. Unable to attend formal schooling due to the polio-induced paralyzation of his leg, Toshi would instead help with his family's printmaking studio and go on sketching trips with Hiroshi. As he got older, these trips would include India and Southeast Asia, working from morning to night taking night trains to get from one destination to another. Among Toshi's favorite subjects were the animals he discovered along the way. However, these trips ended as Japan entered military dictatorship in the mid 1930s, and artists whose work showed signs of Western influence were barred from exhibiting. At this time, Toshi left Japan for China and Korea, where he would remain for the duration of the war. He stuck to patriotic themes to remain in business, and after the end of World War II, as Japan struggled to recover from wartime economic depression, he earned his living creating traditional Japanese woodcut landscapes...

Ecce Homo VII Woodcut, 1921 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by the artist One of only three known impressions Created while the artist was studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germ...

This original woodcut in colours is hand signed in pencil "R. Lichtenstein" at the lower right margin. It is dated ‘80’ [1980] next to the signature. It is also numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower right margin. There were also 18 artist’s proofs aside from the standard edition. The subject was printed and published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford, New York in 1980. The paper bears the blindstamp of the printer and publisher. This is the sixth composition of six comprising the ‘American Indian Theme...

"The Space Between III" is an abstract contemporary monoprint by Texas artist Roberta E. Laine. In this one-of-a-kind print, layers of mulberry papers have been run through an etchin...

Wassermusik, 2015 Woodcut in colors, on wove paper 21 1/4 x 29 7/8 in. (54 x 76 cm) Edition of 8, EA Signed and numbered in pencil, lower margin

Ohne Titel (Blatt 2 der Folge Genesis), 2006 Woodcut in colors, on wove paper 29 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (75.5 x 45 cm) Edition of 35 Signed and numbered in pencil, lower margin

Alles fließt, 2013 Woodcut in colors, on wove paper 22 x 14 1/5 in. (56 x 36 cm) Unique Signed in pencil, lower margin

Tinzenhorn I, 2015 Woodcut in colors, on wove paper 22 2/5 x 30 1/3 in. (57 x 77 cm) Edition of 50, EA Signed and numbered in pencil, lower margin