Red Pot from Turkey
- Date:
- 1919
- 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.
A red ceramic pot from Turkey — an object encountered through travel or collector's markets — is rendered in Hiratsuka's direct woodblock manner. The 1919 date makes this among his earliest surviving still life subjects, the foreign ceramic object treated with the same formal attention he would later extend to Japanese tile designs and Asian antiquities. The Turkish origin signals the international curiosity that would define his collecting throughout his life.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Red Pot from Turkey was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1919.
Red Pot from Turkey depicts still life.
