$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.
The Nagasaki doll carrying a baby on her back — a traditional clay or ceramic folk toy from this port city's distinctive craft tradition — is rendered here in color woodblock. Hiratsuka's interest in folk art objects from across Japan finds in the Nagasaki doll a subject that combines the domestic with the artifactual. The 1959 color print treats the toy figure with the formal seriousness he extended to all his folk art subjects.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nagasaki Doll (with baby on her back) was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1959.
Nagasaki Doll (with baby on her back) depicts children and daily life, set at Nagasaki.
