Live Auction 16896Modern and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Lot 484

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)

Mr Penck and I

Closed3 December 2020

Price Realised

HKD 4,750,000

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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Mr Penck and I
signed with artist’s signature, dated ‘94’ twice and titled in Japanese (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 cm. (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Painted in 1994

Hakutosha, Nagoya, Japan
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1996

Specialist note

“He (Yoshitomo Nara) was invited by German painter A.R. Penck to pursue his studies and was granted a Meisterschüler (master course) title in painting. This was a period of great isolation for Nara, during which he was reminded of his adolescent years in Aomori. The two psychologically coincided inside him; as he recalls, ‘The sky above winter in Germany was exactly like the sky in Aomori. It was an unexpected rediscovery of an almost forgotten value.”
– Mika Yoshitake, Curator