A special exhibition introducing paintings that helped artist Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) regain prominence posthumously is running at the Hibiya Library and Museum in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward. Takehisa, ...

View Yumeji Takehisa and Ikuma Arishima’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

An X-ray of a female nude by late Japanese painter Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) has revealed that the woman's private parts were initially covered by cloth -- a modest touch the artist eventually ...

The bijinga (portraits of beautiful women) by Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) portrayed women in such a distinctive manner that it became known as "Yumeji beauty style." Yumeji developed this poetic and ...

OKAYAMA--An oil painting by the artist Yumeji Takehisa that was thought lost until its recent discovery decades later will feature in a traveling exhibition starting in June in Tokyo before moving on ...

View Yumeji Takehisa’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Cover title also in English: Beauty, love, and sadness, Yumeji and his works.

Takehisa Yumeji and his times / Chris Uhlenbeck -- Finding an aesthetic language : the early years, 1884-1911 / Nozomi Naoi -- An independent artist in an era of change : the later years, 1912-1934 / ...

Elsewhere, and as Yamano Hidetsugu, the curator of "Takehisa Yumeji in Memory," puts it, Takehisa became the first to bring "art" into journalism. The slowly emerging historical picture of Takehisa, ...