$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.
Bellerophon — the Greek hero who tamed Pegasus and slew the Chimera — appears in Hagiwara's Greek Mythology portfolio as a bold abstracted figure reduced to its essential mythological charge. The 1965 print uses the distinctive carved surface and ink-on-paper technique that Hagiwara developed for this series, the hero's form emerging from the block's texture as much as from deliberate line-work. The [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) freedom to design, carve, and print oneself allowed Hagiwara to pursue the symbolic density of classical myth through purely personal technique.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Bellerophon was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in Shōwa period, dated 1965?.
Bellerophon depicts figures, mythology, and abstract.
Bellerophon measures 39.4 × 53.7 cm.
