Portrait of a Woman
- Date:
- 1945
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print
- Dimensions:
- 50.8 × 40 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
The 1945 Portrait of a Woman—made the year Japan's defeat ended the Pacific War—belongs to the period when Saito was finding his mature voice. The female portrait in close-up, the face rendered with simplified features and bold contour, shows him working through the reductive approach that would define the next fifty years. The wartime and immediate postwar portraits often have a concentrated, interior quality, as if the experience of those years focused the artist's attention on the essential human face.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Portrait of a Woman was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清) in 1945.
Portrait of a Woman depicts portraits.
Portrait of a Woman measures 50.8 × 40 cm.
