Adam and Eve
Catalogue
- Year
- 1980
- Dimensions
- 66.4 × 51.4 cm (26 1/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Sadao Watanabe
Artist
Printmaking
Sadao Watanabe was a Japanese printmaker and ceramicist known for his bold woodblock prints and stoneware vessels produced in the postwar period. Working primarily in traditional Japanese media, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of geometric and organic forms that referenced both folk craft aesthetics and modernist abstraction. His practice bridged artisanal technique and contemporary visual language.
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Record
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- Sadao Watanabe
- Year
- 1980
- Dimensions
- 66.4 × 51.4 cm (26 1/8 × 20 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1980-080090
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified