by Mayumi Oda
Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
The second of Oda's Bliss of the Sea compositions — the ocean as a site of spiritual ecstasy rather than danger or awe. Where the Japanese print tradition's treatment of the sea often emphasizes its power and threat (Hokusai's Great Wave), Oda's sea compositions find in the ocean a quality of bliss — the physical sensation of total immersion in the life-sustaining medium, the release from the bounded separateness of terrestrial existence, the return to the saline solution in which all life began. Her goddess figures in these seascape compositions are completely at home in the water, their embodiment not constrained but liberated by the ocean's buoyancy.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Bliss of the Sea II (40/50) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Bliss of the Sea II (40/50) depicts seascapes.
