Live Auction 20097Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Lot 112 Property from a New York Charitable Family Trust

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)

Happy Hour (with Drum & Bass)

Closed12 November 2021

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USD 600,000

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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Happy Hour (with Drum & Bass)
signed in Japanese and dated '98' (on the reverse)
acrylic on paper
16 3⁄8 x 18 in. (41.6 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1998.

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

Specialist note

One such night, one song that played from the radio blew my mind…my whole precocious self was blown away! That song lit a fire in my raw teenage emotion. It was the Ramones! And then the Sex Pistols, and The Clash, and Bob Marley…they gave me an answer to how I’d live my life from then on.
– Yoshitomo Nara