Nude
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
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
Nude renders the human body in Hagiwara's abstracted sosaku-hanga idiom — the figure stripped of social context and cultural markers, reduced to its essential formal qualities of mass, line, and surface. Hagiwara's carved block technique, which worked through controlled removal of material, produced a figure defined by what remained after the cutting rather than by what was added through drawing. The nude in the sosaku-hanga tradition was a declaration of artistic independence from both the commercial bijin-ga tradition and academic figure painting.
More Prints by Hideo Hagiwara
More Nude Prints
Tsuta Hot Springs in Mutsu Province (Mutsu Tsuta onsen), from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, First Series (Tabi miyage dai isshu)"
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
1919
Color woodblock print; oban
Namari Spa, Iwate Prefecture (Iwate ken Namari onsen)
1943
Color woodblock print
Autumn at the Arayu Hot Spring, Shiobara
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Arifuku Spa, Iwami, from the series "Souvenirs of Travel, Third Series" (Tabi miyage dai sanshu, Iwami Arifuku onsen)
1924
Color woodblock print
Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Nude was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Nude depicts nude.