Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Lot 310

Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)

In the Floating World

Closed12 February 2015

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GBP 52,500

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Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
In the Floating World
(from left to right)
(i) dated ‘’99’ (lower left); signed in Japanese and numbered ‘21/50’ (lower right)
(ii-iii) signed in Japanese and numbered ‘21/50’ (lower left); dated ‘’99’ (lower right)
(iv) titled twice ‘No Fun’ (centre left); signed in Japanese and numbered ‘21/50’ (lower left); dated ‘’99’ (lower right)
(v) titled ‘FULL MOON’ (lower left); signed in Japanese, numbered and dated ‘ 21/50 ‘99’ (lower right)
(vi) signed in Japanese, numbered and dated ‘ 21/50 ‘99’ (lower left)
(vii) numbered ‘21/50 (lower left); signed in Japanese and dated ‘’99’ (lower right)
(iix) titled ‘Fuck ‘bout everything’ (lower centre); numbered ‘21/50 (lower left); signed in Japanese and dated ‘’99’ (lower right)
(ix) signed in Japanese, numbered and dated ‘ 21/50 ‘99’ (lower right)
(x) titled ‘What’s going on?’ (upper left); signed in Japanese, numbered and dated ‘ 21/50 ‘99’ (lower right)
(xi) numbered ‘21/50 (lower left); signed in Japanese and dated ‘’99’ (lower right)
(xii) signed in Japanese and numbered ‘21/50’ (lower left); dated ‘99’ (lower right)
(xiii) titled ‘No Nukes’ (upper right); numbered ‘21/50 (lower left); signed in Japanese and dated ‘’99’ (lower right)
(xiv) titled ‘PUNK’ (upper left); numbered ‘21/50 (lower left); signed in Japanese and dated ‘’99’ (lower right)
(xv) dated ‘’99’ (lower left); signed in Japanese, titled and numbered ‘slash with a knife 21/50’ (lower right)
(xvi) numbered ‘21/50’ (lower left); signed in Japanese and dated ‘’99’ (lower right)
reworked woodcut and colour xerox on paper, in sixteen parts
each: 16 3/8 x 11 ¼in. (41.3 x 28.5cm.)
Executed in 1999, this works is number twenty-one from an edition of fifty

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.