$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.
Herakles — the supreme hero of Greek mythology, destroyer of monsters and embodiment of physical force — is rendered in Hagiwara's sosaku-hanga idiom through bold carved surfaces and controlled tonal gradients that translate the hero's brute power into abstract visual energy. The 1965 portfolio series, which Hagiwara created as a sustained engagement with classical mythology, used the woodblock medium's capacity for strong, uncompromising black-and-white contrasts to evoke the mythological world's fundamental conflicts between order and chaos. The print is both document of classical culture and exploration of the artist's own carved surface language.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Herakles was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in Shōwa period, dated 1965?.
Herakles depicts figures, mythology, and abstract.
Herakles measures 38.1 × 53.3 cm.
