PRINTS: WATANABE, SADAO (Japanese, 1913-1996)
bound limited edition of (6) colored prints, 198/200, 1975 (kpappazuri, stencil printing)
From the estate of Carol Ishimoto, Cambridge, MA, a relation of the artist by marriage.
Watanabe is one of Japan's most successful artists of the 20th c. Becoming ill with tuberculosis, he found hope reading the Bible. Baptised in 1930, he made a commitment to tell the Christian story through his art. Recovered from tuberculosis, he continued to spread the story of the Bible in his work. He specialized in the art of "Katazome", the technique of traditional stencil drying used for the Kimono. He studied under Soetsu Yanagi (1891–1961), a leading member of the Japanese folk art movement. He learned the traditional technique of Japanese stencil printing, called Kappazuri, from Serizawa Keisuke. In 1947, he won the top prize from the Japan Folk Art Museum, and the Kokugokai Prize in 1948. He held a one-man show at the Portland Art Museum in 1962 and displayed his work at The Modern Print Show at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. In 1976, he was invited to the United States by the Lutheran Church, and in 1977 had a one-man show at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. In 1981, he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Linfield College, Oregon. His works are in the collection of: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in San Francisco, Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Art Museum, British Museum, Carnegie Museum, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Museum of Art in Tokyo, as well as numerous important private collections.
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Realized: $475 - Excluding Buyer's Premium
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Lot 47 : PRINTS: WATANABE, SADAO (Japanese, 1913-1996)
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