Washing Feet
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
$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.
The washing of feet — Christ's radical gesture of servant leadership at the Last Supper, when he takes basin and towel and washes each disciple's feet — is a subject Watanabe returned to in multiple works. The act's physical specificity (feet, water, the kneeling figure and the seated recipient) gives the katazome stencil technique a clear visual focus, and the theological inversion — the teacher serving the students, the Lord kneeling before the servants — is carried by the arrangement of the bodies in the composition rather than by any explanatory visual device.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Washing Feet was created by Sadao Watanabe (渡辺禎雄).
Washing Feet uses Stencil Print, on woodblock print.
Washing Feet depicts daily life.
