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 first of Oda's Woman Calendar series — a very small edition (1/10) suggesting this was an early or experimental work in what became a sustained series. The Woman Calendar concept — organizing female experience around the temporal structures of the calendar year — is an intrinsically feminist project: it reclaims the measurement of time as a domain of feminine rather than purely masculine experience, connecting the cycle of months and seasons to the rhythms of women's bodies and lives. The first composition in such a series establishes the visual vocabulary that subsequent works develop — Oda's characteristic figure types, color palette, and compositional strategies here first applied to the calendar framework.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman Calendar (1/10) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Woman Calendar (1/10) depicts figures and bijin-ga.
