Circa 1968, kappazuri stencil print, signed in blue to lower right and dated together with red artist's seal, edition in pencil "1/50" to lower left margin, presented under glass with mat in gilt wood frame.

Frame dimensions 25 x 20 1/4 in., Sight size 18 x 14 in.

Property of a Gentleman, Collected in Japan

Yoshitoshi Mori was a 20th century Japanese artist who specialized in kappazuri stencil prints, a form of stencil printing where one layered color and form with self-cut stencils. With winding outlines and emphatic blocks of color, Mori's work is renowned for its spirited expression of traditional subjects through a distinctly modern visual dialect. For many years he belonged to the Mingei folk craft movement, where he produced stencil-dyed textiles and other textile arts. It was not until the 1950s that Mori began to work with paper, yet he quickly became known as one of the foremost artists of the Sosaku Hanga movement. Yoshitoshi Mori is said to have influenced several major 20th-century print artists, including Shiko Munakata and Hiromitsu Takahashi.

Mori exhibited his works in numerous one-man shows in Japan in the 1960s and took part in 30 international exhibitions between 1957 and 1977. Within the United States, his work can be found in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to name only a few.

Very good impression and color; a few light scattered foxing spots; not examined outside of the frame.