NARA YOSHITOMO | Clear for Landing

Executed in 2001

Galerie Zink, Munich
Private Collection
Sotheby's, London, 2 July 2008, lot 425
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

This work is in very good condition. The sheet is slightly undulating. There are very gentle surface irregularities, inherent to the artist's original execution method. Please note that it was not examined out of its frame.
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[Nara’s work evokes] the immediacy of children's feelings that his grown-up audience had long forgotten but that were nevertheless preserved in the recesses of their minds. These feelings in turn gave them the strength to accept their own solitude and to understand life as an inextricable mixture of loss and hope. - Midori Matsui