Lot  217 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2020 Taipei

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2020 Taipei

Jet Set

Yoshitomo NARA (Japanese, 1959)

2000

Colored pencil and pencil on paper

27.9 x 21.6 cm

Estimate

TWD 3,600,000-4,600,000

HKD 957,000-1,223,000

USD 123,400-157,600

CNY 847,000-1,082,000

Sold Price


Signature

Signed lower right Na in Japanese and dated 2000

PROVENANCE
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Blum & Poe, California
Pace Gallery, New York
Private collection, Asia

ILLUSTRATED
Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 2, Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, 2011, color illustrated, p. 166, no. D-2000-245

+ OVERVIEW

Nara’s works are often portraits of children exuding attitudes of mockery, resistance, a spirit of rebellion, or disdain for the world and its baseness. And although these children’s portraits feature strange, flippant, or pitiful looks, their appearances revolve around a strong self-awareness, a self shrouded in loneliness. “Jet Set” created in 2009, "Jet Set" is a term for an international social group of wealthy people who travel the world to participate in social activities unavailable to ordinary people. The term, which represent and came from the lifestyle of travelling from one stylish or exotic place to another via jet plane.
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Modern & Contemporary Art

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2020 Taipei

Sunday, December 6, 2020, 2:00pm