Fishermen
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
$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.
Fishermen — whether the disciples mending their nets or the laborers of the Galilean fishing industry that provided the setting for so much of Jesus' ministry — appear repeatedly in Watanabe's work as figures who embodied the ordinary working humanity he prized. His katazome rendering of fishermen deploys the bold earth tones and simplified forms of the mingei tradition to present working men with dignity and directness, their labor given the same visual weight as any spiritual subject.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Fishermen was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Fishermen uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.
Fishermen depicts animals.
