Self-Portrait
- Date:
- 1966
- Medium:
- Woodcut print; ink on paper
- 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 self-portrait in woodcut — the artist turning the knife on himself with the same directness he brought to temple gates and foreign artifacts. The 1966 woodcut, ink on paper, renders Hiratsuka's features with bold, unsparing line: the high forehead, the deliberate gaze of a man in his early seventies who has been making prints for over fifty years. Self-portrait is a genre that tests an artist's honesty, and this one does not flinch.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Self-Portrait was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1966.
Self-Portrait depicts portraits.
