About This Print
One of 42 prints in the artist's series Greek Mythology. Hagiwara pictures a sleeping Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, the King of Crete, suspended by a single vine. She is in her classic sleep pose of one arm raised over her head with a look or exhaustion and despair, as she has been abandoned by her lover Theseus on the island of Naxos.
The entire series was issued as a complete portfolio bound in a black woven material, imprinted in silver. Hagiwara employed both traditional Japanese woodblock technique as well as intaglio on these prints.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #1117 |
| Title or Description | アリアドネ Ariadne [as inscribed on print] |
| Series | Greek Mythology ギリシャ神話 |
| Artist | Hagiwara Hideo (1913 - 2007) |
| Signature | hideo hagiwara - pencil signed by artist in English in lower left margin |
| Seal | |
| Publication Date | 1965 |
| Edition | 33 of 50 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Carver | self-carved |
| Printer | self-printed |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - slight toning |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm) |
| H x W Image | 15 x 21 1/8 in. (38.1 x 53.7 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama has the entire series of prints in their collection |
| Reference Literature | 現代木版画の巨匠萩原英雄の世界: 昭和 61年 5月 24日--6月 29日, 山梨県立美術館, plate No. 98. [Note: catalog of the exhibition of Hideo Hagiwara's woodblock prints at the Yamanashi Prefectural Museum May 24 - June 29, 1886.] 萩原英雄 無垢なる世界 VOL.1／VOL.2, 武蔵野市民文化会館, 1996, p. 73, pl. 118. |
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