$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.
Saint Mary appears in Yumeji's 1924 print with the large, sorrowful eyes of a Madonna — but with the eyes, the posture, and the emotional register of a Yumeji bijin. The Virgin Mary was, for Yumeji, a figure of compatible sensibility: a woman defined by love, suffering, and the sacrifice of the self to a larger feeling, all qualities he found in his own romantic figures. The 1924 date places the work in the late Taisho period, when Yumeji's engagement with Western religious imagery reached its greatest intensity.
Kamakura Daibutsu
1930
Color woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
大仏
Woodblock print
1926
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Saint Mary was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二) in November 1924.
Saint Mary depicts religious, bijin-ga, and portraits.
Saint Mary measures 27.2 × 12.4 cm (Oban format).
