$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 and blossoms — the combination is among the most fundamental in Yumeji's visual vocabulary, the seasonal flowers providing a visual analogy for the female beauty that is his primary subject. Blossoms in Japanese aesthetic tradition are always beautiful and always about to fall, and the Yumeji woman who appears among them shares that quality: her beauty is peak and threshold simultaneously, most fully itself at the moment of its greatest vulnerability to time. The combination distills the Taisho Roman aesthetic to its essential image.
Kumoi sakura
1926
Color woodblock print
1935
Color woodblock print
Romon
1935
Color woodblock print
円山公園桜
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman and Blossoms was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Woman and Blossoms depicts cherry blossoms, spring, and bijin-ga.
