Woman in Baghdad is a portrait capturing a local figure during Toshi Yoshida's Middle Eastern travels, rendered with the sensitive cross-cultural observation that characterized his best international work. Studio editions from the family workshop trade for $300-$900, and jizuri impressions sell for $700-$1,600. Middle Eastern portrait subjects by Japanese artists are exceptionally rare, and this print documents a mid-century encounter between two ancient artistic traditions.
Woman in Bagdad is a 1954 color woodblock print depicting a female figure in the Iraqi capital, one of several portraits Yoshida made of women in the Middle Eastern cities he visited that year. The composition connects to the Japanese bijin-ga tradition of "beautiful women" prints while extending that tradition to subjects encountered across the world, Yoshida treating the Iraqi woman with the same careful observational attention he brought to wildlife subjects and Japanese landscapes. The 1954 date places this among the earliest of his Middle Eastern prints, a record of a Baghdad that no longer exists in the same form.
$900
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman in Bagdad was created by Toshi Yoshida (吉田遠志) in 1954.
Woman in Bagdad uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on color woodblock print.
Woman in Bagdad was published by Yoshida Studio (1954).
Woman in Bagdad depicts bijin-ga.
Woman in Bagdad measures 27.8 × 42 cm (Oban format).
