The earlier Clay Images of 1950 shows Saito working through his relationship to haniwa before the series reached its mature compression. Two or more of the ancient clay figures occupy the composition, their hollow-eyed faces and simplified bodies arranged in the flat frontal presentation that Saito would continue to refine. These early works on paper show the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) printmaker finding in Japan's oldest sculptural tradition a validation of his own modernist reductive impulse.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Clay Images was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清) in 1950.
Clay Images depicts figures, religious, and still life.
Clay Images measures 17.8 × 32.6 cm.
