Turnips by Tomoe Yokoi
Turnips
Tomoe Yokoi
Title
Turnips
Artist
Tomoe Yokoi
1942 - PRESENT (biography)Year
1979
Technique
color mezzotint
Image Size
10 15/16 x 13 1/4" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
XXII/XXX
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned, chop mark in lower right margin
Reference
Paper
white Rives BFK wove
State
published
Publisher
Inventory ID
13908
Price
$350.00
Description
Tomoe Yokoi chose the humble turnip as a subject worthy of a portrait in her dark, velvety mezzotint portraying the root vegetable in a woven basket surrounded by shadow. As with much of her work from this era, she leaves out gratuitous textures and colors and shrouds the image in secrecy, making the viewer squint just a bit to fully recognize what is emerging from the soft darkness. Yokoi almost exclusively created images of still lifes, even in her more abstract compositions.