Northern Winter - 北方の冬
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
$1,000–$15,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
A northern winter — "北方の冬" — is rendered in this composition with the bleakness and bareness that distinguish winter in Japan's northern regions from the more atmospheric, picturesque winters of Kyoto or the Tokai coast. Yumeji made several works depicting the harsh north, and the starkness of those landscapes served as a visual analogy for his most intensely melancholy moods — the cold, the bare branches, the grey sky, the absence of color all corresponding to states of feeling as much as to meteorological facts.
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Yuki no Miyajima
1929
Color woodblock print; oban
1932
Woodblock print
Northern Winter - 北方の冬 was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Northern Winter - 北方の冬 depicts snow scenes and winter.
