Adam and Eve
- Date:
- 1980
- Medium:
- Hand-colored stencil print; edition 12/100
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$5,000. Common Biblical prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Watanabe's warm, folk-art Biblical prints have a devoted collector base. Larger formats and earlier works command more.
Dated 1980, Watanabe's Adam and Eve is rendered in the katazome stencil-dyeing technique that is the foundation of his entire practice — the first human couple depicted in the bold, flattened forms and rich earth tones of Japanese mingei folk craft. Rather than the Western academic tradition of Michelangelo or Cranach, Watanabe's Eden is a world of deeply saturated color and powerful silhouette, the human figures standing with the same sturdy directness as the figures in ancient Japanese religious art. The Fall's narrative is present, but the emphasis falls on the original wholeness of the pair.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Adam and Eve was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄) in 1980.
Adam and Eve uses Stencil Print, on hand-colored stencil print; edition 12/100.
