![Bakchos [=Bacchus] (Bakkasu) by Hideo Hagiwara — Japanese Woodblock print](https://data.ukiyo-e.org/mfa/images/sc206641.jpg)
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$2,000. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
Bakchos — Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, ecstasy, and creative inspiration — appears in Hagiwara's mythological series as a subject uniquely suited to his investigation of surface, color, and release from rational constraint. The god of intoxication and the liberation of the senses had obvious affinities with the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) artist's commitment to personal expression over academic convention. Hagiwara renders the deity through the bold, textured surfaces of his mature carved-block technique, the grape-clusters and vine forms that traditionally accompanied Bacchus translated into abstract pattern.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bakchos [=Bacchus] (Bakkasu) was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Bakchos [=Bacchus] (Bakkasu) depicts figures, mythology, and abstract.
