$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 a cat — two figures of independence, self-possession, and oblique emotional communication — share the frame in this composition by Yumeji, the cat's opacity mirroring and intensifying the woman's characteristic reserve. Yumeji's women and cats share a sensibility: both are defined by what they withhold as much as what they express, both inhabit a private emotional space that others can observe but not enter. The woman-and-cat pairing is among his most visually and psychologically concentrated subjects.
Hebizukai
1932
Color woodblock print; oban
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
1964
Acrylic paint and oil pastel with oiled charcoal and ink over an ink and graphite underdrawing on paper
1964
Color lithograph with relief block and hand coloring; edition 35/36
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman and Cat was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Woman and Cat depicts animals and cats.
