Little Girl
- Date:
- 1927
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 × 13.5 cm
- Publisher:
- Yoshida Studio
This 1920s print from the heart of Yoshida's jizuri period represents his mature shin-hanga technique. Standard jizuri prints of Japanese landscapes cluster around $2,149 (1stDibs dealer benchmark). The jizuri seal — indicating Yoshida personally supervised printing — is the single most important value driver, typically doubling the price over non-jizuri lifetime impressions.
This 1927 portrait depicts a young girl, likely encountered during Yoshida's travels, rendered with the sympathetic observation he brought to figural subjects throughout his career. Yoshida rarely portrayed children with sentimentality; instead he treated them with the same formal attention he gave to landscapes — as presences in light, their posture and expression observed with care. The print reveals his oil-painting background in its attention to the human face, while its execution in woodblock achieves a delicacy of color and line unavailable to the painter's brush.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Little Girl was created by Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田博) in 1927.
Little Girl was published by Yoshida Studio (1927).
Little Girl depicts children and daily life.
Little Girl measures 19.8 × 13.5 cm (Oban format).
