SADAO WATANABE (1913-96) SHOWA ERA, DATED 1967 A Japanese print, brushed pigments and stencil on monigami kozo (crumpled paper), depicting Christ preaching to women standing around a well, signed, dated and numbered 3/50 in white ink, framed and glazed, 48.5cm x 54cm. Provenance: an English private collection, acquired in Japan in the 1960s-70s. Sadao Watanabe was a Japanese artist renowned for his prints featuring biblical scenes in traditional mingei folk art style. His prints are often made on crumpled wet paper mixed with mineral pigments suspended in soy milk (katazome). His work is now internationally recognized, and it can be found in collections around the world including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Museum of Art in Tokyo.