Live Auction 15970Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Lot 869

Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)

Dog from Screen Memory

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 588,500

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Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Dog from Screen Memory
acrylic, lacquer, fabric and urethane on Fiberglas, in two parts
front: 34 ¾ x 32 5/8 x 33 1/8 in. (88.3 x 82.9 x 84.1 cm.)
back: 44 1/8 x 36 x 24 7/8 in. (112.1 x 91.4 x 63.2 cm.)
Executed in 1999. This work is unique.

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003

Specialist note

“Seeing the children or animals as my other self, it signified me leaving the familiar confines of Japan and liberating myself from my surroundings.” Yoshimoto Nara
(Y. Nara, quoted in Yoshimoto Nara+graf, exh. cat., Torre de Málaga, 21 September 2007-6 January 2008, p. 15).