$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 beauty — bijin — rendered in the direct Yumeji-style, her large eyes, slightly parted lips, and slender elongated form expressing the romantic ideal that Yumeji created and that Japan embraced as the face of the Taisho era. The Yumeji-style bijin was something new in Japanese visual culture: a modern woman who felt emotions publicly, whose sorrow and longing were legible in her posture and gaze, and who embodied the Taisho Roman aesthetic of romantic individualism. This first-designated "Beauty" is among the most direct expressions of that type.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Beauty 1 was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Beauty 1 depicts bijin-ga.
