$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 portrait of Hiroko, the artist's eldest daughter, made when she was approximately five years old. Hiratsuka renders his daughter with the directness of a sosaku-hanga artist who believes the woodcut can carry intimate as well as monumental subjects. The 1928 woodcut belongs to a small group of family portraits in which his domestic life briefly enters an otherwise public-facing body of work.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hiroko (Hiratsuka's oldest daughter) was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1928.
Hiroko (Hiratsuka's oldest daughter) depicts figures, children, and portraits.
