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Yoshitomo Nara
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description
- Yoshitomo Nara
- The Little Pilgrims (Night Walking)
- fiberglass, cotton cloth and acrylic, in 5 parts
- Each: 28 1/4 by 19 3/4 by 16 3/4 in. 72 by 50 by 42.5 cm.
- Executed in 1999, this work is from an edition of 10 plus 2 sets of 2 artist's proofs; only eight of the original sets remain intact.
Provenance
Galerie Jöhnen & Schöttle, Cologne
Brett Mitchell Collection Inc., Cleveland
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Brett Mitchell Collection Inc., Cleveland
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Exhibited
Setagaya Art Museum, Art/Domestic, February-March 1999 (another example exhibited)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Walk On, March - June 2000 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Galerie Jöhnen & Schöttle, In the Empty Fortress, March - April 2000 (another example exhibited)
Nuremberg, Institut für Moderne Kunst; Munich, Michael Zink Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket, September - November 2002, pp. 14, 140-141 & 197, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Walk On, March - June 2000 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Galerie Jöhnen & Schöttle, In the Empty Fortress, March - April 2000 (another example exhibited)
Nuremberg, Institut für Moderne Kunst; Munich, Michael Zink Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket, September - November 2002, pp. 14, 140-141 & 197, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Literature
Shigeo Goto, ed., Yoshitomo Nara: Ukiyo, Tokyo, 1999
Mark Coetzee, Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection, New York, 2004, p. 87, another example illustrated
Mark Coetzee, Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection, New York, 2004, p. 87, another example illustrated
Catalogue Note
"But what odd pilgrims they are! They run this way and that. They run with little arms stretched out before them, heads leaning back and closed eyes - an army of sleepwalkers. They move determinedly but do not know where to, as if pulled by invisible strings - or placed move by move like the game pieces they resemble... Although the dreaming, sleepwalking figures are lost in thought and completely on their own, they really are not all alone - they are legion." – Stephan Trescher (Exh. Cat., Nuremberg, Institut für moderne Kunst, Yoshitomo Nara, Lullaby Supermarket, 2001, p. 13)