Live Auction 20097Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Lot 113 Property from a New York Charitable Family Trust

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)

Pilgrim Heads

Closed12 November 2021

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USD 1,290,000

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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Pilgrim Heads
signed and dated 'Nara '99' (on the reverse of each element)
acrylic, lacquer and cotton collage on fiberglass reinforced plastic, in five parts
each: 13 1⁄4 x 20 x 10 in. (33.7 x 50.8 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1999. This work is from an edition of five.

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

Specialist note

But what odd pilgrims they are! They run this way and that. They run with little arms stretched out before them, heads leaning back and closed eyes – an army of sleepwalkers.
– Stephan Trescher (M. Rothenberger, Lullaby Supermarket, exh. cat., Nuremberg, Institut für moderne Kunst, 2001, p. 13.)