Unknown 1
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
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
A print of unknown subject within Watanabe's catalog — likely one of his stencil print compositions depicting a Biblical scene — represents the documentary challenge of his large output. The katazome technique and the Biblical subject matter that define his practice are consistent across all his prints, and this unidentified work is part of the same sustained project as his documented subjects. The physical presence of the print — its warm palette, its bold simplified forms — would immediately identify it as Watanabe's even without a confirmed title.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Unknown 1 was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Unknown 1 uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.