Alice

A young girl in a flowing white empire-line dress sits poised upon a pink sofa, her small white dog resting beside her in this quiet moment captured in Alice. The composition carries the soft, naive stylization of early 20th-century salon portraiture, rendered with the textured weight of an oil painting.

Historical Reference

Alice is an oil painting by the Japanese yōga (Western-style) painter Kinji Koshiba (小柴錦侍, 1889–1961), exhibited at the 10th Imperial Academy of Art Exhibition (Teiten) in Tokyo in 1929. The son of Koshiba Ei, a pioneer of lithographic printing in Japan, Koshiba trained for nearly a decade in France, studying at Maurice Denis’s Académie Ranson and the École du Louvre before returning to Tokyo in 1920. A devout Catholic, he was celebrated for the religious and Marian pictures that repeatedly won special selection (tokusen) at the Teiten; the sitter’s small cross pendant and hushed, devotional stillness here carry that same spirit, while the flattened forms, gentle palette and Empire-line white gown reflect the French decorative training behind his brush.

About the Artwork

️ • This reproduction captures a full-page color-reproduction-style composition, focusing on the delicate textures of the subject's embroidered cap and the soft hues of the sofa. The scan preserves the painterly qualities of the original oil medium, maintaining the character of a piece that bridges Eastern and Western artistic sensibilities.

Original Condition

A Journey Through Time

This is not just a print—it's a piece of history that has traveled through a century, surviving wars, natural disasters, and the passage of time to land in your hands today. Unlike modern digital recreations that erase history's marks, we embrace every crease, stain, and faded edge as a testament to the journal's journey.

By owning this piece, you are not just buying an artwork—you are absorbing a fragment of history, a lost vision of the world as it once was. Let this artwork serve as a bridge between time and space, allowing you to glimpse the beauty of a world before war, before destruction, before history took its cruel path. Your purchase helps continue our mission—to protect, share, and celebrate the art of the early 20th century.

How it works

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What you get

File: 1× JPG, high-resolution
Size: Print up to A2 (or larger, source dependent)
Delivery: Instant download · 14-day re-download window
Use: Personal use only
Returns: Digital item returns are not accepted. All sales final (terms)

Original archive scan. Folds, foxing, and patina preserved. Colours may vary slightly between screen and printer.