Lot 243
  • 243

Nobuko Watabiki

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Description

  • Nobuko Watabiki
  • Senaka no mienu kanashimi no younamono (Sorrow of discontentment similar to not being able to see one's own back)
  • signed and dated 2003 on the stretcher and framed with UV plexiglass
  • oil pastel on heavy Japanese paper canvas mounted on board
  • 76 3/8 by 63 3/4 in. 194 by 162 cm.

Provenance

Private collection, Tokyo
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Tokyo, Galleria Chimera, Nobuko Watabiki, 2003
Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, MOT Annual 2005, Life Actually, January 15 - March 21, 2005, p. 43, illustrated (the image was also used for the poster advertising the exhibition and for tickets)

Literature

Spa, Asako Oguriyama, February 8, 2005, illustrated
The Tokyo Shimbun, Takao Nakamura, January 22, 2005 (Evening edition, Art section), illustrated
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Michiko Kasahara, December 17, 2004 ("Friday Column"), illustrated
The Asahi Shimbun, Edan Corkill, January 28, 2005, "Getting Personal," illustrated