Entry into Jerusalem
- Date:
- 1962
- Medium:
- Hand-colored stencil print on crumpled paper; edition 15/50
- 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 1962, the Entry into Jerusalem — Christ riding a donkey through the crowd's acclaim, palm branches spread in his path — marks the beginning of the Passion narrative. This early print, from a limited edition of 50, shows Watanabe's katazome technique fully formed: the crowd's festive colors, the donkey's patient dignity, the palm branches' bold shapes all rendered in the mingei style's characteristic flat, saturated palette. The tension between the crowd's expectation and the journey's actual destination is present in the composition's forward momentum.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Entry into Jerusalem was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄) in 1962.
Entry into Jerusalem uses Stencil Print, on hand-colored stencil print on crumpled paper; edition 15/50.
