Black Cat - 黒猫
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
$1,000–$15,000. Reproductions and common prints: $1,000–$3,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
A black cat sits in proximity to a Yumeji-style figure — or stands alone as its own subject — in this composition that brings together two of the most charged presences in his visual world. Black cats in Yumeji's work are not sinister but companionable, sharing the solitude and the watchful, slightly melancholy quality of his bijin figures. The cat's independent self-sufficiency mirrors the emotional self-containment of the Yumeji woman, and together they create a composition whose loneliness is also a kind of contentment.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Black Cat - 黒猫 was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Black Cat - 黒猫 depicts animals and cats.
