Moonlit coastal landscape with pine tree.
Watercolour on paper. Sheet size 28.2 x 37.6 cm. Frame 40 x 48 cm.
Property of a private Swedish collector.
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.