$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.
The Virgin Mary appears again in Yumeji's work — distinct from "Saint Mary" in composition or context — as a figure of maternal devotion and spiritual tenderness that complemented his own emotional aesthetics. Yumeji's Madonnas share the large, deep eyes of his bijin figures but are given an additional quality of selfless love — a feeling directed outward rather than inward, toward a child rather than a lover. The Virgin Mary as Yumeji saw her is a woman in whom the romantic ideal has been transcended by something larger and more sacrificial.
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.
Virgin Mary was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Virgin Mary depicts religious, bijin-ga, and portraits.
