Moon Nose

Details

Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Moon Nose
colored pencil and tape on envelope
10 ¾ x 8 ½ in. (27.3 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed in 2003.

Provenance

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003

Literature

N. Miyamura and S. Suzuki, eds., Yoshimoto Nara: The Complete Works – Works on Paper, vol. 2, San Francisco, 2011, p. 209, pl. D-2003-133 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Wellesley, Massachusetts, Wellesley College, Davis Museum, "Don't Look," Contemporary Drawings from Martina Yamin's Collection, September-December 2007, pp. 13, 80 and 81, no. 31 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“Rather than merely offering the work for the viewers to see face-on, I want to trigger their imaginations…This way, each individual can see my work with his or her own unique, imaginative mind” – Yoshitomo Nara (Y. Nara in conversation with M. Chin, “A Conversation With The Artist,” M. Matsui, Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, exh. cat., M. Chui and M. Tezuka (eds.), Asia Society Museum, 2010, p. 179).

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