Mask No.12 (Kamen No. 12)
- Date:
- 1964
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; edition 10/50
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$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.
Mask No. 12 (Kamen No. 12) from 1964 with edition 10/50 belongs to Hagiwara's mask series at its international peak — the careful edition control and the specific numbering indicate a print made for the collector market that was beginning to recognize his work at the major European print biennales. The mask's formal properties — symmetrical structure, simplified features, the confrontational frontal presentation — translated well into the woodblock medium's strengths in precise geometry and clean edges. The mask looked outward at the viewer with the same direct address that abstract woodblock surfaces made of their texture.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mask No.12 (Kamen No. 12) was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in 1964.
Mask No.12 (Kamen No. 12) depicts portraits and abstract.
