Moonlit coastal landscape with pine tree.
Watercolour on paper. Sheet size 28.2 x 37.6 cm. Frame 40 x 48 cm.
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Property of a private Swedish collector.
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Hiroshi Yoshida 吉田 博, (1876 – April 5, 1950) was a 20th-century Japanese painter and wood-blockprintmaker. Along with Hasui Kawase, he is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style and is noted especially for his lanscape prints. Yoshida made numerous trips around the world, with the aim of getting to know different artistic expressions and making works of different landscapes.
He was known as a mountain painter (山岳画家) in Japan and spent about half of the year on sketching travels. He was particularly fond of mountain landscapes and painted many of them, founding the Nihon Sangakugaka Kyōkai (Japan Mountain Painting Society, 日本山岳画家協会)
His works are held in several museums worldwide, to mention some the British Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
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Hiroshi Yoshida (吉田 博, 1876–1950) is considered one of the leading artists of the shin-hanga movement, alongside Hasui Kawase. Renowned for his landscapes, Yoshida traveled widely and depicted international scenes—such as the Taj Mahal, Swiss Alps, and the Grand Canyon—using traditional Japanese woodblock techniques. Known in Japan as a mountain painter (山岳画家), he spent half the year on sketching trips and had a deep passion for mountain scenery. In his later years, he founded the Japan Mountain Painting Society (日本山岳画家協会). A dedicated mountaineer, he climbed the Japanese Alps every summer, later turning his sketches into large paintings and prints.
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