What Fuels Yoshitomo Nara’s Artistic Genius?

28 September 2025 | Hong Kong

Yoshitomo Nara's "Can't Wait 'til the Night Comes" is the largest work known on canvas featuring Nara's ‘children of the night’. Dazzling and beguiling. The artist revisits this theme repeatedly throughout his career. An intimate part of his creative process, he would work “alone in his studio, usually late at night, with punk rock screaming from speakers”, and rising only well into the mature hours of the day.

The Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction takes place at Sotheby's Hong Kong on 28 September.

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