Little Pond
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
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.
Description
A small pond — intimate in scale, its surface covered with reflections or aquatic plants — becomes in Hagiwara's sosaku-hanga treatment a meditative surface study. The pond's still water and the textures of its margins — mud, stone, aquatic vegetation — provided the artist with the kind of close-up natural subject that allowed his carved surface technique to operate at its most tactile. The "little" in the title signals the deliberate modesty of the subject, Hagiwara finding in the small and overlooked a field of investigation as rich as the grand and famous.
More Prints by Hideo Hagiwara
More Rivers & Lakes Prints
Lake Chuzenji, Nikko (Nikko Chuzenjiko)
Nikko Chuzenjiko
1930
Color woodblock print; oban
Lake Kugushi in Wakasa Province (Wakasa Kugushiko), from the series Souvenirs of Travel I (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Gosai Canal in Niigata (Niigata Gosaibori), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Second Series (Tabi miyage dai nishu)"
Niigata Gosaibori
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Mt. Fuji and Shojin Lake
Woodblock print
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Little Pond was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Little Pond depicts rivers & lakes.