Fumio Kitaoka - Born in Tokyo, Fumio Kitaoka studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and later in Paris at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts. Kitaoka experimented with a range of subjects and styles from bold abstractions to expressionist figures, and is known for his later colorful landscape woodblock prints. Kitaoka taught in the USA during the 1960s and exhibited internationally, showing regularly at the celebrated College Women's Association of Japan's annual print show in Tokyo. His vibrant and distinctive works are popular with modern collectors and are included in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Signed - Fumio Kitaoka in pencil in bottom margin, dated 1997
Numbered - 87/120
Artist - Fumio Kitaoka (1918 - 2007)
Image Size - 12 1/8" x 15 7/8"
Condition - This print with excellent color and detail as shown. Paper mounts on reverse at top edge. A few creases, a few small wrinkles at edges. Please see photos for details.
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