Girl with Calico-Patterned Background
- Date:
- 1948
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
A girl posed against a background of calico — the patterned cotton fabric rendered as an abstract field behind the figure — reflects Hiratsuka's interest in the interaction of figure and ground as a formal problem. The 1948 woodblock belongs to his postwar figure studies, the calico's pattern translated into the graphic vocabulary of his knife work.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Girl with Calico-Patterned Background was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1948.
Girl with Calico-Patterned Background depicts children and daily life.
