Takashi Murakami

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in February 1999

Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Takashi Murakami: The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning, June - September 1999, cat. no. 24, p. 65, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Takashi Murakami: Summon monsters? Open the door? heal? Or die?, August - November 2001, n.p., illustrated in color 
Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art; Tampa Museum of Art; Chicago Cultural Center, Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection, June 2003 - June 2004, pl. XXXIX , p. 89, illustrated in color
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, © Murakami, October 2007 - May 2009, p. 209, illustrated in color

This work appears in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges and at the four corners. There are a few scattered dust accretions and a 1 inch faint surface abrasion coming out diagonally from the top right corner. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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