YOSHITOMO NARA (JAPAN, B. 1959)

Upset Kitty

Price realised HKD 2,187,500
Estimate
HKD 700,000 – HKD 1,000,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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YOSHITOMO NARA (JAPAN, B. 1959)

Upset Kitty

Price realised HKD 2,187,500
Price realised HKD 2,187,500
Details
YOSHITOMO NARA (JAPAN, B. 1959)
Upset Kitty
signed with artist's signature and dated ‘'97' (on the reverse)
resin, lacquer, cotton on fiber-reinforced plastic and wood sculpture
48 x 50.8 x 29 cm. (18 7/8 x 20 x 11 3/8 in.)
Executed in 1997
Provenance
Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection, USA
Literature
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, Cleveland, USA, 2004 (illustrated, pp. 64-65).
Foil Co. Ltd., Yoshitomo Nara - From the Depth of My Drawer, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 (another edition illustrated, unpaged).
Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd., In the Deepest Puddle – Yoshitomo Nara, Tokyo, Japan, 2009 (illustrated, unpaged).
Asia Society Museum, Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, New York, USA, 2010 (another edition illustrated, p. 51).
Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 1 - Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs, Tokyo, Japan, 2011 (another edition illustrated, plate S-1997-001, p. 262).
Exhibited
Los Angeles, USA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Superflat, 14 January – 27 May 2001.
Cleveland, USA, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Philadelphia, USA, Institute of Contemporary Art; California, USA, San Jose Museum of Art; Missouri, USA, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Hawaii, USA, The Contemporary Museum, Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens (touring exhibition), 12 September 2003– 22 May 2005.

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