$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Yoshida Masaji's abstract prints are collected by those interested in post-war Japanese modernism.
Identified only by an ellipsis and a number, this woodblock print belongs to Yoshida Masaji's practice of using serial titles that resist narrative interpretation. The numbering system suggests an ongoing investigation rather than a discrete finished statement, each print a single iteration within a larger visual inquiry. Masaji worked within the sosaku-hanga movement, where the artist carved and printed every block personally, rejecting the collaborative division of labor used in shin-hanga. This hands-on process gave him direct control over the pressure, ink density, and registration of each impression. The abstract vocabulary of the print likely features the textured, earthy surfaces and compressed spatial depth that recur throughout his work, where forms seem to emerge from or sink back into the paper itself.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
.......No.3 was created by Yoshida Masaji (吉田政次).
.......No.3 depicts abstract.
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