About This Print
A turquoise sky, shimmering with applied mica, provides the backdrop for Hagiwara's colorful cloth-like objects flapping in the breeze . I do not know how many prints Hagiwara created using the theme/title of breeze, but I have come across one other print made in 1968, shown below, titled, simply, Breeze.
Hagiwara, Hideo
Breeze, 1968
Printed color relief print with mica
sheet: 11 1/16 in. x 13 15/16 in. (28.1 cm x 35.4 cm)
composition: 8 1/4 in. x 9 11/16 in. (21 cm x 24.6 cm)
1999.0.424
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Breeze, 1968
Printed color relief print with mica
sheet: 11 1/16 in. x 13 15/16 in. (28.1 cm x 35.4 cm)
composition: 8 1/4 in. x 9 11/16 in. (21 cm x 24.6 cm)
1999.0.424
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #956 |
| Title or Description | 六月の風 No. 2] Breeze No. 2 [as inscribed on print] [Rokugatsu no kaze No. 2] |
| Series | Breeze |
| Artist | Hagiwara Hideo (1913 - 2007) |
| Signature | pencil signed by artist in English – Hideo Hagiwara in lower left margin |
| Seal | |
| Publication Date | 1968 |
| Edition | 29 of 50 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Carver | self-carved |
| Printer | self-printed |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - minor mat line; fold lower right margin not impacting image; rubbing lower right margin not impacting image |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 14 1/4 x 22 1/8 in. (36.2 x 56.2 cm) |
| H x W Image | 11 x 18 1/4 in. (27.9 x 46.4 cm) |
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