Lot 509
  • 509

TOMOO GOKITA | Daughter of a Fraudster

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Gokita Tomoo
  • Daughter of a Fraudster
  • signed, titled and dated 2013 on the reverse
  • acrylic and gouache on linen
  • 31 5/8 by 25 5/8 in. 80.3 by 65.1 cm.

Provenance

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in March 2014

Exhibited

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Tomoo Gokita, January - March 2014

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

"I am presuming that to deform the human face might be a reaction against my practice of depicting them like crazy when I was young. Probably, I have become tired of depicting faces. Also, I have loved the masked wrestlers of the Mexican Lucha libre and those masks in Africa all this time, and a kind of transformational desire 'to hide a face and to become a different character,' which can be symbolized in those masks, may have affected my work. I suppose there exists a certain ghoulish curiosity towards monsters and deformities, too." Tomoo Gokita