Two Exiles

Catalog note / 解説

This large original colour woodblock by Japanese artist Hiroyuki Tajima is pencil signed lower right and dated '72. Edition size at lower center is 50-47 (47th from an edition of 50) and at the left is the title, \"Two Exiles\". Tajima Hiroyuki was born in Tokyo Japan in 1911. In 1932 he graduated from Nihon University and in 1943 from the Western-style painting division of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Tajima had a great interest in the Western dada and surrealist styles. He received further training on mokuhan from Nagase Yoshi, one of the earliest Sosaku Hanga artists and on fabric dyeing from Hirakawa Matsugoro. The artist made his first print in 1946, the same year he joined the Bijut…