Yoshitomo Nara - 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale in Association with Poly Auction Hong Kong Sunday, June 6, 2021 | Phillips
  • "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

     

    Yoshitomo Nara Pilgrim
     Installation view of Walk On: Works by Yoshitomo Nara, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 18 March - 25 June 2000
    Photograph by James Isberner © MCA Chicago

     

    • Provenance

      Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
      Private Collection, USA
      Christie's, Hong Kong, 29 March 2019, lot 21
      Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

177

The Little Pilgrim (Night Walking)

signed, numbered and dated 'Nara [in Japanese] 8/20 2002' (on the underside)
acrylic on fibreglass
27 x 19 x 17 cm. (10 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)
Executed in 2002, this work is number 8 from an edition of 20.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
HK$400,000 - 600,000 
€42,100-63,100
$51,300-76,900

Sold for HK$819,000

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Danielle So
Associate Specialist, Head of Day Sale
DanielleSo@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Day Sale in Association with Poly Auction

Hong Kong Auction 7 June 2021