Tiger Lilies
- 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.
Tiger lilies — the bold, spotted orange flowers of the Lilium lancifolium, one of Japan's native lily species — give Watanabe a botanical subject in which the katazome stencil technique's capacity for rich, warm color finds full expression. The tiger lily's saturated orange and its distinctive dark spots create a pattern that translates naturally into the stencil-dyeing medium, and the flower's confident vertical presence gives the composition a distinctive graphic quality. Whether purely decorative or bearing symbolic associations with purity or transformation, the lilies are rendered with botanical directness.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tiger Lilies was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Tiger Lilies uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.
Tiger Lilies depicts animals.
