Exhibited: (possibly) Daniel Gallery, New York, 1922, Paintings and Drawings by Yasuo Kuniyoshi; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1996-1997, circulating exhibition: The Shores of a Dream: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Early Work in America, exhibition traveled to the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

Ex. coll: The artist, until c. 1950; to the Downtown Gallery, New York; to Heywood Hale Broun, Woodstock, New York

Kuniyoshi's early drawings were often humorous in mood. His keen wit and interest in visual and verbal puns are evident in Remains of Lunch. This pen-and-ink drawing unpretentiously displays the remnants of a light repast. The luncheon plate displays a demitasse spoon, cigarette butt, dollops of pear sauce and fluted, paper pastry cup. The artist's widow noted that Kuniyoshi loved pears and pear sauce. Here he plays with the verbal and visual double-entendre of "pear" and "pair", visually matching the birds, leaves, and fruits that appear along the inside and outside borders of the plate. The dish also reveals the developing in folk arts and crafts, which Kuniyoshi and other in his circle collected.