Sadao Watanabe stencil print Naomi and Ruth 1979

Description: Sadao Watanabe (Japanese, 1913-1996)Naomi and Ruth color stencil print, signed l.r. and dated 1979 visible image measures approximately: 8" W x 9 3/8" Hframe measures approximately: 15 5/8" W x 17" H Please note that shipping charges are inclusive of insurance, payment processing (if paying by check or cash, processing fee will be refunded) and carrier fees. If local pickup is selected and if applicable, payment processing fee will still be assessed and due. About Sadao Watanabe Sadao Watanabe was a printmaker celebrated internationally for his depictions of biblical subjects using traditional Japanese techniques. Watanabe was born in 1913 in Tokyo. On Christmas Day 1930, he was baptized a Christian. In the late 1930s, he worked as a dyer and designer of patterns for kimonos and obis in a dying shop. During that time, Watanabe met Keisuke Serizawa and his textile dye art. He became his student and learned to use the kappazuri technique (stencil dying on paper) from Serizawa. Serizawa recognized Watanabe's talent for kappazuri and encouraged him to develop his own style. Watanabe devoted himself almost exclusively to depicting biblical scenes, from the Garden of Eden to the angelic trumpets at the end of time. He often cut his stencils while listening to Gregorian chant. The art of the European Middle Ages had a special appeal for him, since it came out of an era of shared Christian faith—when the church was the chief patron of the arts and commissioned pieces from skilled craft-workers whose names are now known only to God. Watanabe created many of his Bible scenes on huge sheets of textured paper, much like the folio parchment pages of illuminated manuscripts decorated by artist monks in the monasteries of medieval Europe. Watanabe worked from his Tokyo home in the Shinjuku ward and was assisted by his wife, Harue Watanabe (1919-2010). In 1996, Watanabe passed away in the age of 82.

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Location: Chicago, Illinois

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