Bunraku (G), Shôwa period, dated 1961
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Harvard Art Museums
Typical Price
- Exceptional or early edition Saito print in fine condition: $3,000–$15,000
By 1961 Saito had produced multiple bunraku prints—labeled with sequential letters to distinguish variants—and the (G) version likely shows a different puppet character type or a distinct compositional angle from the earlier versions. The theatrical doll's formal qualities suited his mature aesthetic perfectly: the carved face was already an abstraction, already a simplification of human features made to read at distance, already halfway to the kind of reductive portraiture he had been pursuing since the 1940s.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bunraku (G), Shôwa period, dated 1961 was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Bunraku (G), Shôwa period, dated 1961 depicts kabuki.
