$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: As a member of the Yoshida printmaking dynasty, Chizuko's work benefits from family name recognition. Abstract nature prints are most collected.
Freeze by Chizuko Yoshida takes a physical state, the transition from liquid to solid, as its subject. In Chizuko's abstract vocabulary, this transformation provides a metaphor for stillness, arrested motion, and the crystalline clarity that cold temperatures impose on a landscape or a state of mind. The woodblock medium is itself a process of fixing: an image carved into wood and pressed onto paper becomes permanently frozen in its final form. Chizuko plays on this resonance between subject and medium, using the woodblock's inherent flatness and precision to evoke the hard, definite edges that freezing creates. The print belongs to a body of work that consistently finds visual equivalents for physical sensations, translating what the body feels into what the eye perceives.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Freeze was created by Chizuko Yoshida (吉田千鶴子).
Freeze depicts snow scenes and abstract.
