Evening in East Africa is a luminous sunset composition from Toshi Yoshida's celebrated African wildlife series, depicting the savanna bathed in golden light. Jizuri editions of the East Africa subjects command $1,000-$3,000, reflecting strong crossover demand from wildlife art collectors. Studio editions are available from $500-$1,500. The African series represents the pinnacle of Toshi's international reputation and consistently outperforms his other subjects at auction.
Evening settles over the East African savanna in this atmospheric print from Yoshida's African wildlife series, the long horizontal light of the late afternoon catching the grassland and the silhouettes of trees on the horizon. Yoshida traveled to Africa multiple times, studying its wildlife and landscape with the same attentiveness his father Hiroshi Yoshida brought to mountain and coastal subjects. The print's palette shifts through amber, violet, and dusty rose — the characteristic colors of the African twilight — rendered in the carefully controlled gradations of woodblock printing.
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
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1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
1919
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Evening in East Africa was created by Toshi Yoshida (吉田遠志).
Evening in East Africa uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on woodblock print.
Evening in East Africa was published by Yoshida Studio.
Evening in East Africa depicts night scenes.
