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YOSHITOMO NARA | THE LONESOME BABIES
Lot Closed
May 28, 01:04 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
YOSHITOMO NARA
b. 1959
THE LONESOME BABIES
signed, titled and dated 96
ink and coloured pencil on paper
sheet: 29.2 by 21 cm. 11½ by 8¼ in.
framed: 34.1 by 27.8 cm. 13½ by 11 in.
This work is accompanied by a certificate issued by Tomio Koyama Gallery
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Private Collection
Shinwa Auction, Tokyo, 14 April 2007, Lot 105
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Yoshitomo Nara, Ed., Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Volume 2: Works on Paper, Tokyo 2011, p. 98, no. D-1996-078, illustrated in colour
"As for records, I bought a lot of imported records because they were inexpensive even for someone my age. But, you know, I couldn't read the jacket cover of the thing I'd just purchased! Yet I pulled the record out of the cover and started listening with the cover in my hand. It got my imagination moving a lot and gradually I started picking up words. Little by little, I constructed the world of the record using imagination. I think I trained my imagination through the picture books and records, without knowing I was doing so."
Yoshitomo Nara cited in Hideo Furukawa, 'An Interview with Yoshitomo Nara, Asymptote, November 2013, online