$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 old bookstore in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. — its books visible through the window, the shopfront's wooden frame rendered with Hiratsuka's characteristic attention to architectural detail — represents the quotidian urban subject at its most intimate. The 1963 woodblock belongs to his Georgetown street-level documentation, finding in the neighborhood's surviving 19th-century commercial buildings the same formal interest he brought to temple gateways.
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
1948
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Old Bookstore in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1963.
Old Bookstore in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. depicts urban scenes, architecture, and daily life.
