Lot 217
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
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.
Related Info
Modern & Contemporary Art
Ravenel Autumn Auction 2020 Taipei
Sunday, December 6, 2020, 2:00pm