Mirror Number One
- Date:
- 1970
- 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.
"Mirror Number One" suggests a series exploring reflective surfaces — possibly literal mirrors, possibly the more abstract sense of a print as a mirror of its subject. Hiratsuka's 1970 woodblock plays with the idea of reproduction and reversal that is inherent to printmaking itself. The subject is characteristically self-referential for an artist who spent a career thinking about what woodblock transcription does to the world it depicts.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Mirror Number One was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1970.
Mirror Number One depicts still life and abstract.
