![Title unknown [Woman with green and white fan] by Takehisa Yumeji — Japanese Woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 1910s–1930s](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/132727.jpg)
Title unknown [Woman with green and white fan]
- Date:
- 1910s–1930s
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
- Format:
- Oban
- Dimensions:
- 14.9 × 9.8 cm
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
$1,000–$15,000. Beauty prints by this artist are particularly sought after. Original prints and illustrations: $4,000–$8,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
A woman with a green and white fan — the fan's cool colors suggesting summer and the shade of an interior — holds the accessory in the posture of restrained feeling that characterizes the Yumeji bijin at her most composed. The fan in Yumeji's repertoire of accessories is among the most loaded: an object of display and concealment simultaneously, capable of expressing more with its angle and motion than words could articulate directly. The green and white suggests both freshness and reserve, a woman whose feeling is real but whose manner is controlled.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Title unknown [Woman with green and white fan] was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二) in 1910s–1930s.
Title unknown [Woman with green and white fan] depicts bijin-ga.
Title unknown [Woman with green and white fan] measures 14.9 × 9.8 cm (Oban format).
