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Details

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
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acrylic and graphite on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 cm. (20 x 16 in.)
Painted in 1998

Provenance

Private collection, London
Sotheby's New York, 10 November 2005, lot 322
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
Christie's New York, 1 April 2008, lot 52
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works 1984 - 2010, Volume I: Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo, 2011 (illustrated, plate P-1998-001, p. 147).
The Yoshitomo Nara Foundation, Yoshitomo Nara: The Works, digital, ongoing (illustrated, no. P-1998-001).

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Lot Essay

“[Yoshitomo Nara’s girls are] symbolic representation[s] of the dominant feelings of Japanese youth in the late 1990s and early 2000s, characterised by a sense of uncertainty about the future, vulnerability, and a yearning for the innocence preserved in the inner child” (M. Matsui, “Art for Myself and Others: Yoshitomo Nara's Popular Imagination”, in M. Chiu, et al. (eds.), Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum, 2010, p. 13).

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