$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.
Play Ground (2) from 1964 — with ink on paper and the artist's signature — belongs to Hagiwara's Playground series, in which the spatial and social world of children's play was rendered through abstract formal means. The playground as subject encompassed both the physical architecture of play equipment and the less tangible qualities of play itself: freedom, spontaneity, the testing of physical and social limits. Hagiwara's carved surfaces captured the dynamic energy of the playground without resorting to the literal depiction of children at play.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Play Ground (2) was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄) in Shōwa period, dated 1964.
Play Ground (2) depicts children, daily life, and abstract.
Play Ground (2) measures 45.1 × 59.2 cm.
