Ohmi Gallery
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
Typical Price
$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.
Description
The Ohmi Gallery print — likely associated with an exhibition or gallery publication in the Ohmi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) region, one of the areas where Watanabe's Christian community had deep roots — represents the documentary and promotional dimension of his print practice. Gallery prints, frontispieces, and exhibition commemorative works often feature representative compositions from an artist's catalog, and this print likely presents one of Watanabe's characteristic Biblical stencil subjects in the context of a specific exhibition or community occasion.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Ohmi Gallery was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Ohmi Gallery uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.