Hair - 髪
- Date:
- circa 1970s (this item: First edition)
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
Key value factors: As self-carved and self-printed works, sosaku-hanga value is tied to the artist's reputation and edition size. Larger formats, earlier editions, and historically significant works command the highest prices.
Hair (髪) — its texture, arrangement, and care — is one of the defining preoccupations of bijin-ga, and this print makes it the explicit subject. In ukiyo-e, the representation of a woman's hair, whether in elaborate formal arrangement or in the vulnerable moments of tending it, was understood as a kind of portraiture in itself. Takasawa, working in the 1970s, brings this classical interest into his own era, treating the hair with the precision and sensory attentiveness it demands.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hair - 髪 was created by Takasawa Keiichi (高沢圭一) in circa 1970s (this item: First edition).
Hair - 髪 depicts figures, bijin-ga, and portraits.
