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| Artist: | Hiratsuka Yuji (b. 1954) |
| Title: | Contemplating Cracking Hoping etc |
| Series: | Be-ing |
| Date of first edition?: | 1994 |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Self |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Self |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 39416 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
Saturday, 1 July 2006
ARTIST: Hiratsuka, Yuji (born 1954)
SERIES: Etching/hand coloring, portfolio of ten prints in fine silk presentation box with colophon and introduction by Stephen Chovanec
TITLE OR SUBJECT: Be-ing (each print portraying an aspect of being alive); Contemplating, Cracking, Hoping, Mending, Praying, Predicting, Engaging, Dreaming, Gesturing, and Articulating
SIGNATURE AND SEAL: Pencil signature each print
DATE OR CIRCA: 26/50, 1994
PAPER SIZE: 10 prints 15 1/2 x 13 inches
IMPRESSION/COLOR/CONDITION: Good/Good/Good
CONDITION DETAILS: Museum quality, uncirculated |
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| Artist Bio: |
The art of Yuji Hiratsuka is a sophisticated, usually witty and sometimes a bit enigmatic, synthesis of Eastern and Western culture.
Yuji Hiratsuka was born in Japan, but has permanently settled in the U.S.A. in Oregon, where he teaches printmaking art at the University of Portland.
His prints are in the collections of numerous museums like Tokyo Central Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, the British Museum and the Achenbach Foundation in San Francisco.
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