Kazue Yamagishi
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$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.
Kazue Yamagishi — identified by full name, suggesting a portrait of a specific person in Yumeji's world — appears in this undated print, the named subject giving it a specificity unusual in his more universal bijin work. Yumeji made portraits of people he knew throughout his career — fellow artists, models, patrons, companions — and these named works offer a different kind of access to his world than the archetypal, unnamed figures of his published illustrations. The specificity of a name grounds the image in the biographical reality of Taisho Japan.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kazue Yamagishi was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Kazue Yamagishi depicts bijin-ga and portraits.
