"Call to the Fisherman 1963" by Sadao Watanabe - Framed Limited Edition $1,995
Call to the Fisherman 1963 Limited Edition Print by Sadao Watanabe
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Call to the Fisherman 1963

Sadao Watanabe

Limited Edition Print : Raised Paper Print.
Size : 22x19 in  |  56x48 cm
Framed : 29x26 in  |  74x66 cm
Edition : From the edition of 50

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Year1963

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent - Black on frame has few scratches. 

Framed with PlexiglassOuter Edge of Frame is Black. Diagonal Gold 

Purchased fromOther 1975 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID109537

Sadao Watanabe - Japan

Art Brokerage: Sadao Watanabe Japanese Artist: b. 1913-1996. Sadao Watanabe (July 7, 1913 – January 8, 1996), born and grew up in Tokyo, was a Japanese printmaker in the 20th Century. Watanabe was famous for his biblical prints rendered in the mingei (folk art) tradition of Japan. As a student of the master textile dye artist Serizawa Keisuke (1895–1984), Watanabe was associated with the mingei (folk art) movement. The young Watababe worked in dyers’ shops, sketching patterns and dyeing clothes. In 1937, one year after Yanagi Soetsu (1889–1961), father of the Japanese mingei (folk art) movement, had established the Folk Art Museum, the 24-year-old Watanabe saw an exhibition of Serizawa Keisuke’s (1895–1984) work. The event sowed the seeds of Watanabe’s artistic endeavor. Few years later, Watanabe attended a study group in which Serizawa taught his katazome technique of stencilling and dyeing, which originated in Okinawa. From then on, the teacher-and-student relationship between Serizawa and Watanabe became strong and abiding. The subject matter of Watanabe’s prints is exclusively the gospel rendered in the mingei (folk art) approach. Influenced by Buddhist figure prints, Watanabe placed biblical subjects in a Japanese context. In The Last Supper (1981) Watanabe depicts the disciples in kimono. On the table are bottles of sake and sushi.Watanabe uses kozo paper (from mulberry tree) and momigami (kneaded paper). The momigami paper was crumpled by hand, squeezed and wrinkled to give a rough quality to the prints. The katazome method uses traditional organic and mineral pigments in a medium of soybean milk. The protein in the milk bound the colors to the paper’s surface. The use of natural materials is one of the characteristics of mingei (folk art). In 1958, Watanabe received first prize at the Modern Japanese Print Exhibition held in New York City for The Bronze Serpent showing Moses and the people of Israel. Watanabe’s Kiku [Listening] (1960) was featured in the novelist James Michener’s The Modern Japanese Print (1962), a book that introduced ten sosaku hanga artists to the Western audience. The Vatican Museum, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo and many other leading museums in the world had exhibited Watanabe’s works. During President Lyndon Johnson’s administration, Watanabe’s prints were hung in the White House. Listings wanted.

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