Tahiti (B)
- Date:
- 1966
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 10/50
- Dimensions:
- 69 × 55 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Typical Price
- Exceptional or early edition Saito print in fine condition: $3,000–$15,000
- Good condition mid-career print: $500–$2,000
- Standard edition: $200–$600
Description
The 1966 Tahiti (B), edition 10 of 50, shows Saito taking his reductive approach to one of art history's most loaded landscapes—the Polynesian paradise that Gauguin had transformed into Western art's most mythologized exotic destination sixty years earlier. Saito's Tahiti would have been entirely his own, the Pacific light and vegetation filtered through his Japanese formal sensibility rather than a European primitivist one. A small edition of 10 suggests an experimental approach to this unusual subject.
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Tahiti (B) was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清) in 1966.
Tahiti (B) depicts landscapes, seascapes, and travel scenes.
Tahiti (B) measures 69 × 55 cm.