Lot 022
Guitar Girl
Yoshitomo NARA (Japanese, 1959)
2003
Lithograph, ed. 1/75 Publisher: KIDO Press, Inc., Tokyo
50 x 40 cm (Image); 66 x 50.5 cm (Sheet)
Estimate
TWD 1,100,000-1,700,000
HKD 307,000-475,000
USD 39,500-61,000
CNY 256,000-396,000
Sold Price
TWD 2,040,000
HKD 573,034
USD 73,593
CNY 468,966
Signature
Signed lower edge Na in Japanese, dated 2003 and numbered 1/75
PROVENANCE:
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Christie's, "Neon Dreams: Editioned Works by Kusama, Murakami and Nara", New York, September17-October 1, 2013, lot 45
ILLUSTRATED:
Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works 1, Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, 2011, color illustrated, no. E-2003-004, p. 312
PROVENANCE:
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Christie's, "Neon Dreams: Editioned Works by Kusama, Murakami and Nara", New York, September17-October 1, 2013, lot 45
ILLUSTRATED:
Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works 1, Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, 2011, color illustrated, no. E-2003-004, p. 312
+ OVERVIEW
Indeed, music has always accompanied Nara in life. Yoshitomo Nara stated that: "Whenever I am painting, music enters my ears and directly pours out from my hands." He would listen to music while he worked, and many of his artworks or exhibition titles came from western music song titles or lyrics. Even now, his studio continues to accumulate more rock, blues, soul and punk albums. In 2020, the curator of LACMA's Yoshitomo Nara retrospective exhibition, Mika Yoshitake, pointed out the artist's longtime passion in music, which became the theme that ran through the entire exhibition. She said "Ever since Yoshitomo Nara heard folk songs at the age of nine, the covers of all types of albums became one of the means by which he came into contact with and became engrossed in art."
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