Qufu Village, Shandong Province, China
- Date:
- 1955
- 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.
Qufu in Shandong Province, China — the birthplace of Confucius — preserves some of China's most important historic buildings, and Hiratsuka renders its village landscape with his characteristic attention to architecture embedded in terrain. The 1955 woodblock captures Qufu's traditional village character, the rooflines and walls of the Confucian hometown treated with the formal respect he extended to Buddhist sacred sites.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Qufu Village, Shandong Province, China was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1955.
Qufu Village, Shandong Province, China depicts landscapes and village scenes.
