About This Print
This print is one of five prints in the artist's series Germination. Each print in this series uses the similar form of egg or seed-like masses dividing. For this print, Hagiwara used the technique of forcing pigment through the paper from the back, effectively dying the paper and producing a textural surface on which to work. There is significant fading of the colors in this print. Compare against the below impression from the Artelino website.
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A fine impression (10 of 30) of this print from Artelino website
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #395 |
| Title or Description | 萌芽 (2) Germination (2) [as inscribed on print] [hōga (2)] |
| Series | Germination 萌芽 hōga |
| Artist | Hagiwara Hideo (1913 - 2007) |
| Signature | hideo hagiwara - pencil signed by artist in English in lower left margin |
| Seal | |
| Publication Date | 1960 |
| Edition | 2 of 30 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | poor - handling creases throughout; trimmed to image top and sides (between 3/4 to 1" has been removed from the side and top margin; some fading; hinging tape remnants verso |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 22 3/8 x 14 7/8 in. (56.8 x 37.8 cm) |
| H x W Image | |
| Collections This Print | Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.86.147.56 |
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