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Yoshitomo Nara

Over the Topper

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:34 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Yoshitomo Nara

b. 1959


Over the Topper                                                                     

acrylic on FRP sculpture with painted wooden ladder, gauze, ribbon, socks and shoes                             

installation dimensions variable

Executed in 1995. 

Please refer to sothebys.com for updated medium.

Hakutosha Gallery, Nagoya

Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the above)

Christie's Hong Kong, 25 May 2009, lot 502 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, PROJECT FOR GUNMA ‘95, July - August 1995

Kanagawa, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, TOKYO POP, April - May 1996, p. 61, illustrated in color

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Innocent Minds, 1998

Kadokawa Shoten, Yoshitomo Nara: in the Deepest Puddle, Tokyo 2006, n.p., illustrated in color

Yoshitomo Nara, Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs, Vol. 1, Tokyo 2011, p. 258, no. S-1995-002, illustrated in color

Bijutsu Shuppan Sha & Yoshitomo Nara, Yoshitomo Nara: Catalogue Raisonné, Tokyo 2011-ongoing, no. S-1995-002, illustrated in color (online) 

Exh. Cat. Yokohama Museum of Art, Nara Yoshitomo: A Bit Like You and Me…, 2012, pp. 51 and 54, illustrated in color