Younger Sister — 故小妹
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$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.
"Younger Sister — 故小妹" is a memorial print, the Chinese character "故" indicating that the younger sister is deceased. The title transforms the composition from a portrait into an elegy, the younger sister present in the image through whatever the artist has depicted while already belonging to the past that "故" indicates. Yumeji lost people he loved throughout his life, and his memorial compositions carry a different charge than his imagined bijin — they are specific rather than archetypal, private rather than universal, grief rather than romantic melancholy.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Younger Sister — 故小妹 was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Younger Sister — 故小妹 depicts bijin-ga and portraits.
