Live Auction 2164721st Century Day Sale
YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Lot 328

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)

The Girl with Black Eye

Closed29 May 2024

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HKD 3,500,000–5,500,000

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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
The Girl with Black Eye
signed with the artist’s signature, titled, and dated ‘the Girl with the Black Eye ‘99’ (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm. (19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Painted in 1999

Gallery Hakutosha, Nagoya
The Shun Kurokochi collection
You Are Not Alone – Yoshitomo Nara works from The Kurokochi collection, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2013, lot 811
Private collection (acquired at the above sale by the previous owner)
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 10 October 2021, lot 524
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“I was not deliberately painting any particular girl. Through painting representational features such as eyes, noses, and mouths, I wanted to express something deeper. This deeper thing cannot be described with language. Yet, people will understand.” — Yoshitomo Nara