Samaritan Well
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
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 Samaritan woman at the well — the encounter in John's Gospel where Jesus speaks to a woman marginalized by both ethnicity and personal history, offering her "living water" — is among the most theologically rich conversations in the Gospels. Watanabe's katazome rendering of this scene places the two figures beside the well, the Samaritan woman's surprise and growing recognition visible in the arrangement of the dialogue. The print emphasizes the cross-cultural nature of the encounter: a Jewish teacher and a Samaritan woman, separated by everything except the water they both need.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Samaritan Well was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Samaritan Well uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.