About This Print
As with the other prints in this series, Hagiwara uses the technique of forcing pigment through the paper from the back, effectively dying the paper and producing a textural surface on which to work. If you look at the four impressions of this print below (my print and three other images from the edition), you'll notice significant color variations (even allowing for color shifts in photography) which is surely Hagiwara's intent. It would be interesting to see other impressions of this print to see if the artist grouped the variations.
Stone Flower: White, Yellow verso
Three Other Impressions from the Edition
This collection's print (IHL Cat. #229)
numbered 14 of 30
numbered 23 of 30
unknown of 30
numbered 9 of 30
Wall Card from the Exhibition Three Masters of Abstraction
Hagiwara Hideo, Ida Shōichi and Takahashi Rikio
November 3, 2018 - March 24, 2019
Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
萩原英雄 石の花 (白黄) Hagiwara Hideo (1913-2007)
Stone Flower: White, Yellow
1960
Color woodblock print with mica on paper, printed on both sides
Lent by Irwin Lavenberg, L2017.103.4The fifteen prints in this series won multiple awards at prestigious international print fairs in the 1960s, placing Hagiwara at the forefront of modern Japanese printmaking. Using his two-sided printing technique, as described in the label for Autumn Color, he created an almost ethereal surface on which to print these translucent petals lying on soft stone.
About the Series “Stone Flower”
Source: 44 Modern Japanese Print Artists, Gaston Petit, Kodansha International Ltd., 1973, vol. I, p. 112.Thisseries of 15 prints uses a technique devised by the artist in whichpigment is forced through the paper from the back, effectively dyingthe paper and producing a textural surface on which to work. Thisseries is credited with enhancing “the prestige of Japan in thecontemporary print world.”
Other prints in the series include:Stone flower; Stone flower (A)*; Stone flower (B); Stone flower: black; Stone flower: blue, grey; Stone flower: grey; Stone flower: red [Ishi no hana (Aka)]; Stoneflower: white [Ishi no hana (shiro)]; Stone flower: white, yellow [Ishi-no-hana (Haku-o)]; Stone flower yellow; Stone flower: yellow, grey [Ishino hana (kibai)].
* Stone flower (A) and Stone flower (B) were done in a smaller format (sheet size approx. 20 x 17 1/2 in.) than other prints from this series I have seen (sheet size approx. 39 x 26 in.)
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #229 |
| Title or Description | 石の花(白黄) Stone flower: white, yellow [as transcribed on print] [Ishi no hana (haku-ō)] |
| Series | Stone flower 石の花 |
| Artist | Hagiwara Hideo (1913 - 2007) |
| Signature | hideo hagiwara - pencil signed by artist in English in lower left margin |
| Seal | |
| Publication Date | 1960 |
| Edition | 3 of 50 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Carver | self-carved |
| Printer | self-printed |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - handling creases throughout; light toning |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 39 x 26 1/4 in. (99 x 66.7 cm) |
| H x W Image | 35 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (89.5 x 59.1 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1965.68.83); Kichijoji Art Museum, Tokyo |
| Reference Literature | Break with the Past: The Japanese Creative Print Movement, 1910-1960, Roger Keyes, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988, p. 17 checklist #7; Collecting Modern Japanese Prints, Then and Now, Mary and Norman Tolman, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1994, p. 67, 71, 72, pl. 22; 萩原英雄無垢なる世界 : 悠久の夢を追い求める詩人 vol. 1・vol. 2, 武蔵野市 1996-1997, pl. 28, p. 37. |
8/12/2021
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