$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.
The Brazen Serpent — the bronze snake that Moses raised on a pole in the wilderness, which healed all those Israelites who had been bitten by serpents and looked upon it — is one of the Old Testament's most theologically rich images, understood by Christian tradition as a prefiguration of the crucifixion. Watanabe's katazome rendering of this scene would place the pole and its serpent at the center of a composition populated by the stricken and the healed, the bold simplified forms of his stencil technique giving the scene the directness of an ancient icon.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Brazen Serpent was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Brazen Serpent uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.
