Live Auction 10382Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Lot 171

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)

Attack the Rotten World

Closed1 July 2015

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GBP 86,500

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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Attack the Rotten World
signed and dated 'Yoshitomo Nara '95' (lower right)
acrylic, coloured pencil and charcoal on two attached newspaper sheets
13 x 19in. (33 x 48.3cm.)
Executed in 1995

Private Collection, Los Angeles.
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s New York, 10 November 2004, lot 466.
Private Collection, California (acquired at the above sale).
Royal/T, Culver City.
Private Collection (acquired from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s New York, 12 November 2009, lot 345.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘I become disillusioned by the sometimes meaningless act of sending things out into the world, but then there’s always a tomorrow’
(Y. Nara, quoted in ‘Diary entry’, in Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Los Angeles, 2004, p. 2).