Horse Pulling Carriage with Drive, from roof tile
- Date:
- 1935
- 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 horse pulling a carriage with a driver — the complete equipage rendered from an ancient Japanese roof tile — gives Hiratsuka a subject that combines animal energy with human purpose. The 1935 woodblock transcription of the tile's circular design treats the scene as a kind of compressed narrative: journey condensed to a single image. The tile's probable origin in a Nara-period aristocratic context gives the image its archaic gravity.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Horse Pulling Carriage with Drive, from roof tile was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1935.
Horse Pulling Carriage with Drive, from roof tile depicts architecture and animals.
