$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 in a chapel — the Yumeji-style bijin occupying a Christian sacred space — turns the quality of devotion that characterizes his religious compositions toward a figure who also inhabits his secular romantic world. The chapel as setting imposes a quality of hushed attention and interiority on the figure, the sacred space amplifying rather than suppressing the emotional intensity that Yumeji valued. The bijin in chapel is both a devotional and a romantic figure, her feeling for whatever or whomever she directs it toward carrying the same quality of absolute commitment.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Woman in Chapel was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Woman in Chapel depicts bijin-ga.
