Al Perkins Drying Fish

Details

Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889-1953)
Al Perkins Drying Fish
signed ‘Y. Kuniyoshi’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1922.

Provenance

The artist.
Samuel Lewisohn, New York, acquired from the above.
By descent to the late owners.

Literature

A. Brook, "February Exhibitions; Yasuo Kuniyoshi," The Arts, vol. 3, 1923, p. 126.
Fukutake Publishing, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Okayama, Japan, 1991, pp. 73, 213, no. 74, illustrated.
T. Wolf, "'Yoshi's Choice," Portland Monthly, September 2012, p. 51.

Exhibited

New York, Daniel Gallery, Recent Paintings and Drawings by Yasuo Kuniyoshi, January 1923.

Lot Essay

In 1917, Yasuo Kuniyoshi met art patron Hamilton Easter Field, who invited the young Japanese artist and his girlfriend Katherine Schmidt for a summer at his artist's colony in Ogunquit, Maine. Living and working in the fishermen's shacks at Perkins Cove over the next few summers, Kuniyoshi created some of the great paintings of his early career, including the present work of a local fisherman.

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