April 17, 2024
Tomoe Yokoi -pair of Mezzotints
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Funnel and Fruit Cups & Watering Can Jug and Brush Title: Funnel and Fruit Cups Year: circa 1973 Medium: Mezzotint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 150 Image Size: 12 x 13.5 inches Paper Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inchesArtist: Tomoe Yokoi, Japanese (1942 - ) Title: Watering Can, Jug and Brush Year: circa 1973 Medium: Mezzotint, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 150 Image Size: 12 x 13.5 inches Paper Size: 19.5 x 25.5 inchesBorn in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942, Yokoi began art studies at Bunka-Gakuin, a Tokyo College of art, where traditional techniques and subject matter -- the realistic everyday images of fruits, musical instruments, and flowers, which were to become her principal subjects -- were stressed. Several years after her graduation in 1964, Yokoi moved to Paris to study intaglio printmaking with S. W. Hayter at his famous workshop, Atelier 17.By the time Yokoi moved to New York City in 1971, she had perfected the lessons of mezzotint, expanding its parameters to include complex multi-plate images of subtle color nuances. Saper Galleries created a major exhibition of Yokoi's mezzotints in 1988. Combining European beaux-art subject matters with an oriental emphasis on asymmetry and elegant design, the mezzotints of Tomoe Yokoi have been exhibited throughout Europe and the United States at some of the most important print invitationals:
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