A Sad Woman
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,000–$15,000. Beauty prints by this artist are particularly sought after. Original prints and illustrations: $4,000–$8,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
A woman with a look of quiet sorrow — the face drawn down, the shoulders slightly curved, the posture communicating inward collapse without melodrama — embodies the Yumeji-style bijin at her most characteristic in this undated print. Yumeji's sad women were not tragic figures from literature or history but unnamed modern women feeling the unnamed weight of Taisho-era romantic disappointment. Their universality was the secret of their cultural resonance: any woman who had felt this feeling could find herself in the figure.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
A Sad Woman was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
A Sad Woman depicts bijin-ga and portraits.
