PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
YOSHITOMO NARA (JAPAN, B. 1959)

Meerschweinchen

Price realised HKD 1,250,000
Estimate
HKD 500,000 – HKD 600,000
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)

Meerschweinchen

Price realised HKD 1,250,000
Price realised HKD 1,250,000
Details
YOSHITOMO NARA (JAPAN, B. 1959)
Meerschweinchen
signed with artist’s signature, titled in German and Japanese, and dated ‘93’ (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
55 x 56 cm. (21 5/8 x 22 in.)
Painted in 1993
Provenance
Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan
You Are Not Alone - Yoshitomo Nara Works from the Kurokochi Collection, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2013, Lot 816
Private Collection, Asia (acquired at the above sale by the present owner)
Literature
Yoshitomo Nara, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 1 - Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs, Tokyo, Japan, 2011 (illustrated, plate P-1993-037, p. 90).
Exhibited
Nagoya, Japan, Galerie Humanite, Be Happy, October, 1993. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Japan, Galerie Humanite, November-December 1993.
Yokohama, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yoshitomo Nara: I Don’t Mind, If You Forget Me, August– October, 2001. This exhibition later travelled to Ashiya, Japan, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, January- March, 2002; Hiroshima, Japan, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary, April – June, 2002; Asahikawa, Japan, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, June- August, 2002; Hirosaki, Japan, Yoshii Brick Brewhouse, August - September, 2002.
Yokohama, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Works by Nara Yoshitomo in Yokohama Museum of Art Collection, January - March 2011.

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