Buddhist statue
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Typical Price
- Exceptional or early edition Saito print in fine condition: $3,000–$15,000
The Buddhist statue—its specific iconography unrecorded but the handling unmistakably Saito's—appears here as an object of pure formal meditation. His engagement with Buddhist sculpture was less devotional than artistic: these images fascinated him as solutions to a problem he shared, how to render a human form in such a way that it transcends individual personality and becomes an emblem of universal experience. His woodblock solutions are mirror images of the sculptors' own reductive ambitions.
Kamakura Daibutsu
1930
Color woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
大仏
Woodblock print
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Buddhist statue was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Buddhist statue depicts religious.
