Lot 493
  • 493

Yoshitomo Nara

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • Yoshitomo Nara
  • Night Walker
  • signed, titled, and dated 2001 on the stretcher
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 89 1/2 by 71 1/2 in. 227.3 by 181.6 cm.

Provenance

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2001

Exhibited

London, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Jap in a Box, October - November 2001

Catalogue Note

"The little star dwellers give thanks to everyone
They thank all the stars blinking in the Milky Way

What haven't been fulfilled are dreams
What have been seem like dreams, but aren't
They're living right in that terrifying real world
Good dreams and bad dreams take shape: the real world
Days like dreams, looking back they're all scary scary shadow"

- Yoshitomo Nara (diary entry - June 5, 2000., exh.cat., Nuremberg, Institut für moderne Kunst, Yoshitomo Nara, Lullaby Supermarket, 2001, p. 180)