Butterflies, Colored Evening

 

Chizuko Yoshida

  1924 - 2017 (biography)

1982  

color woodcut 

21 1/2 x 16 1/4" image 

pencil, lower right 

24 of 150  

pencil titled (in Japanese), dated, and editoned; "C-6" on verso 

 

textured white wove 

published 

artist 

17286 

SOLD

Chizuko Yoshida is best known for her butterflies and these prints “proved to be very popular”, and commissions for new versions, in both large and small sizes, occupied her for many years. In an interview in 2000, she acknowledged the difficulty of escaping one’s own success, admitting that she continued to make butterfly prints long after she had grown tire of the subject simply because they sold so well.