Early Spring
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- japancoll
Typical Price
$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.
$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.
Early Spring renders the landscape at the moment of seasonal transition — the snow still present in shadowed hollows while the first signs of the new growth push through the warming soil. Hagiwara's treatment of spring's arrival emphasized the quality of light rather than the specific botanical events of the season: the soft, low-angled sun of late February and early March, the sky beginning to show the blue of warmer months above a landscape still essentially winter in its palette. The early spring light was a subject he returned to throughout his career.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Early Spring was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Early Spring depicts spring.
