$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.
White Beach renders a shoreline defined by the contrast between white sand and the dark water beyond — the beach as a zone of maximum simplicity in the natural landscape, its clean geometry (line of sand meeting line of sea meeting line of sky) analogous to the compositional principles of Hagiwara's abstract work. The white beach, unlike the drama of rocky coasts or the complexity of forest interiors, offered the artist a landscape whose aesthetic values were already abstract: pure color, clean edge, the relationship between ground and space.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
White Beach was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
White Beach depicts seascapes.
