A Canal in Venice
- Date:
- 1925
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
- Source:
A Canal in Venice belongs to Yoshida's rarest European series from his 1925 tour. Venice subjects carry particular appeal among European and American collectors. The series as a whole commands the highest premiums in Yoshida's output — The Town of Lugano from this same group set the artist record at $167,144 in 2024.
Venice's canal network provided one of the most painterly subjects of Yoshida's 1925 European journey, the interplay of water reflections, aged palazzo facades, and gondola traffic creating the layered atmospheric effects he excelled at capturing. In this woodblock he transposes the Western city's most iconic visual grammar into Japanese printmaking technique, the shimmering water rendered through precisely graduated [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) passes. The result bridges two great traditions of landscape representation in a single luminous image.
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.
A Canal in Venice was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1925.
A Canal in Venice was published by Yoshida Studio (1925).
A Canal in Venice depicts snow scenes and rivers & lakes.
