Joichi Hoishi Tree With Red Moon, Gold Leaf Limited Edition. 1976.
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:33811 | Primary Material: gold leaf |
| Original/Reproduction: Antique Original | Age: 1976 |
| Region of Origin: Japan |
Joichi Hoishi tree with red moon , gold leaf limited edition.1976 Print. Shipped with FedEx Ground or FedEx Home Delivery.purchased at an estate sale in Michigan. The owners used to work in the art studio with Joichi Hoishi They were neighbors in Tokyo. 32 out of 99 prints. signed with Joichi Hoishi name. The dimensions for the print inside is 14W x 18W with frame is 20.5W x 24.5H Images of trees are a popular and frequent theme of modern Japanese woodblock p...rint. We do not know if Joichi Hoshi was the first Japanese printmaker to pick up this subject on a broad term. For sure is that he began to specialize in woodblock prints depicting trees in the early 1970s and that it made him famous.BiographyJoichi Hoshi was born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan. He had worked as a teacher in Taiwan for 13 years. With the end of world war II the Japanese occupation of Taiwan (Taiwan had come to Japan at the end of the Sino-Japanese war of 1894/95.) ended. Joichi Hoshi returned to Japan in 1946 and began to study oil painting at Musashino College of Fine Arts. When he graduated in 1956 he was nearly 50 years old.Later he taught himself woodblock printmaking. For art friends who are familiar with Joichi Hoshi's works, this is a rather astonishing fact. The artist's works do not look at all technically challenged. Especially his later tree prints offer a rather intricate and elaborate level of technical craftsmanship, for instance the application of real gold or silver pigments.Joichi Hoshi's international reputation began with his participation in several of the prestigious International Print Biennials of the 1950s and 1960s. He exhibited at the Tokyo International Print Biennials of 1959, 1961 and 1963 and at the International Print Biennal of Sao Paulo (Brazil) in 1967. Joichi Hoshi - "Father" of Japanese Tree PrintsIn the early 1970s the artist began to specialize in images of trees. This is what he is most famous for. Japanese art prints showing trees have since then become a fashionable trend. Quite a few artists jumped on the bandwagon and created "tree prints". The trend continues together with a few more trendy subjects in contemporary Japanese printmaking like old farmhouses or birds - preferably owls - in all shapes, styles and colors. Each period in Japanese art printmaking seems to have its favorite genres - from kabuki prints in the Edo period to trees and old farmhouses for contemporary Japanese prints. Examples for artists who engaged in the tree theme are Hajime Namiki (born 1947), Ryohei Tanaka, Kunio Kaneko (born 1949), Shogo Okamoto (1920-2001), Fumio Fujita (born 1933) or Souho Ikegami (born 1940). Tips for collectorsThe tree prints are intricately made using the technique of the traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking and are sometimes refined with silver or gold prigments.You will find limited edition prints as well as open editions by Joichi Hoshi. For the limited editions a typical edition size from the 1970s is between 100 and 200. The limited edition prints are signed, numbered, dated and sometimes even titled in pencil on the lower margin.Collectors and art friends of modern Japanese prints honor Joichi's elaborate prints with elevated prices. As a rule of thumb calculate with prices between USD 500 and 1, 000. Limited editions are of course more expensive than open editions, and prints smaller in size are cheaper than large ones.
