Lot 819
  • 819

Nara Yoshitomo

Estimate
380,000 - 450,000 HKD
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Description

  • Nara Yoshitomo
  • Untitled
  • coloured pencil and soft polish engraving on Rives paper
signed in Japanese, dated 2002+2005, and numbered 16/78, framed

Provenance

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Private Collection
Shinawa, Tokyo, 17 November 2007, lot 240
Ravenel, Taipei, 7 December 2008, lot 302
Private Collection

Literature

Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works 1984 – 2010, Volume 1, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo, Japan, 2011, p. 314

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Please note that it was not examined out of its frame.
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Catalogue Note

This work is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity issued by Tomio Koyama Gallery

The artist first created an engraving in 2002. He revisited the work in 2005 to further develop the subject, elaborating the etched illustration with coloured pencil. Both the lithograph and the reworked etching are illustrated in the artist's catalogue raisonné