$400–$3,000. Common prints: $400–$1,000. Key value factors: Shinagawa's long career (he lived to 101) produced a substantial body of work. Quality abstract prints are most collected.
Produced using fabric and silkscreen rather than traditional woodblock techniques, this portrait of a man reveals the experimental side of Shinagawa's practice. The mixed-media approach places the work outside the conventional boundaries of hanga printmaking, incorporating textile materials that introduce texture, weave patterns, and a physicality absent from paper-based prints. The portrait subject, rendered as a head study, connects to Shinagawa's recurring interest in the human face as a site of psychological expression. The silkscreen process allows for flat, bold color application and precise graphic forms, creating a more mechanically uniform surface than hand-printed woodblock. The use of fabric as substrate or collage element adds an industrial, Pop Art-adjacent quality that situates the work within the international avant-garde experiments of mid-twentieth-century printmaking.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Head of a Man was created by Takumi Shinagawa (品川工) in Mid-20th century.
Head of a Man depicts portraits.
