$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.
Christ carrying the cross toward Golgotha — the via dolorosa, the way of suffering — is one of the central images of Christian devotional art, and Watanabe's katazome version renders this moment with the same unpretentious directness he brings to all his Biblical subjects. The cross's weight, the crowd's presence, the drama of the procession are all contained in the bold, flat forms of the mingei tradition, the theological meaning carried not by academic realism but by the directness of a visual language developed for the honest expression of shared spiritual experience.
Kamakura Daibutsu
1930
Color woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
大仏
Woodblock print
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Biblical Scene - Christ and Cross was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Biblical Scene - Christ and Cross depicts religious.
