Parrot
- Date:
- 20th century
- Medium:
- Woodcut 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 parrot — exotic, brightly colored, associated in Japan with foreign trade through Nagasaki and Yokohama — is rendered in Hiratsuka's early woodcut style. The bird subject belongs to his natural history subjects before the architectural documentation that dominated his mature work. The parrot's domesticated exoticism suited his interest in subjects at the boundary between the familiar and the foreign.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Parrot was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 20th century.
Parrot depicts birds & flowers.
