Girl Smelling Flowers
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
A girl bending toward a flower, drawing it to her face in the absorbed pleasure of a child encountering something fragrant or beautiful—Saito renders this small domestic moment with the formal weight of an icon. The composition likely shows the girl in three-quarter view, the gesture of the raised arm and inclined head creating a movement vector that counterbalances the flatness of the woodblock medium. His child figures are simultaneously timeless and precisely Japanese in their context.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Girl Smelling Flowers was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Girl Smelling Flowers depicts children and daily life.
