Nude (Sitting on a Rock)
- Date:
- 1925
- Medium:
- Color 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.
An early nude — among his first explorations of the figure subject — rendered in color woodblock, the woman seated on a rock in an outdoor setting. Dating to around 1925, this print reflects the Western academic influences on the early sosaku-hanga movement, which absorbed figure drawing conventions from European printmaking alongside the native woodblock tradition.
Mutsu Tsuta onsen
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Color woodblock print; oban
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Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
1924
Color woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nude (Sitting on a Rock) was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1925.
Nude (Sitting on a Rock) depicts nude.
