Peter Cut Ear of Soldier
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
$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.
Peter cutting off the ear of the soldier Malchus during the arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane — the one act of physical violence that Peter performs in the Gospels, immediately rebuked by Jesus — captures a moment of impulsive, misdirected loyalty. Watanabe's katazome rendering of this tense scene places Peter's sword arm, the falling soldier, and the surrounding darkness of the garden all within the bold forms of his stencil technique. The warrior's instinct and the teacher's immediate compassion (healing the ear) create a rapid moral drama in compressed narrative space.
Woodblock print
c. 1828/30
Color woodblock print; surimono
Woodblock print
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Peter Cut Ear of Soldier was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Peter Cut Ear of Soldier uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.
Peter Cut Ear of Soldier depicts warriors.
