Live Auction 14996Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session
Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Lot 623 Contemporary Drawings Collected by Martina Yamin

Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)

Moon Nose

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 137,500

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Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Moon Nose
colored pencil and tape on envelope
10 ¾ x 8 ½ in. (27.3 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed in 2003.

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003

Specialist note

“Rather than merely offering the work for the viewers to see face-on, I want to trigger their imaginations…This way, each individual can see my work with his or her own unique, imaginative mind” – Yoshitomo Nara (Y. Nara in conversation with M. Chin, “A Conversation With The Artist,” M. Matsui, Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, exh. cat., M. Chui and M. Tezuka (eds.), Asia Society Museum, 2010, p. 179).