$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 bijin in a red garment — red is the most charged and complex color in Yumeji's palette, associated simultaneously with passion, danger, and female vitality — appears in this composition with the characteristic Yumeji-style combination of vivid color and emotional reserve. The figure's redness is not a declaration but an atmosphere — she wears her color the way she wears her feeling, intensely but quietly, never breaking into open expression. The contrast with whatever surrounds her gives the print its visual and emotional tension.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bijin in Red (1) was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Bijin in Red (1) depicts bijin-ga.
