$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.
Spring — the season that opens Yumeji's emotional world like a wound — appears in this composition with the particular mixture of beauty and melancholy that was his characteristic response to the season. Spring in Japan is inseparable from cherry blossoms, and cherry blossoms are inseparable from the awareness of their brevity — the most beautiful thing is also the most temporary, a truth that Yumeji returned to throughout his career as an artist and a poet. His spring compositions carry this doubled awareness, celebrating the season even as they mourn its passing.
Spring was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Spring depicts spring.
