Takashi Murakami
Panda
Auction Closed
March 5, 01:40 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Takashi Murakami
b. 1962
Panda
signed, numbered 3/3 and variously inscribed (on the underside of the left ear)
fibreglass with antique Louis Vuitton trunk
sculpture with trunk: 231 by 163 by 113 cm. 91 by 64⅛ by 44½ in.
overall with plinth: 256 by 163 by 120 cm. 100¾ by 64⅛ by 47¼ in.
Executed in 2003, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3, each with a unique Louis Vuitton trunk.
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in 2003)
Sotheby's, London, 26 June 2019, lot 43 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Takashi Murakami: Superflat Monogrami, April - May 2003 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Blum & Poe, Takashi Murakami: Inochi, May - June 2004
Gateshead, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Spank the Monkey, September 2006 - January 2007, p. 158, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, May 2008 - October 2013, extended loan
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Until Now: Collecting the New (1960 - 2010), April - August 2010 (another example exhibited)
Doha, The Qatar Museums Al Riwaq, Murakami – Ego, February - June 2012, p. 231, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, In Focus: Contemporary Japan, December 2017 - August 2018 (the present example exhibited)
Paul Mattick, "Review: Takashi Murakami at Marianne Boesky", Art in America, January 2004, p. 108, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, ©MURAKAMI, 2007, p. 34, illustration in colour of another example
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