Yoshitomo Nara - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, Hong Kong Hong Kong Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | Phillips
  • “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 

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    • Provenance

      Private Collector
      Ravenel, Hong Kong, 29 November 2015, lot 95
      Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Málaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Yoshitomo Nara + Graf: Torre de Málaga, 21 September 2007 - 6 January 2008, p. 45 (another example illustrated)
      Shanghai, Long Museum, Breaking Through to the Actual via the Imagination, 28 November 2015 - 28 February 2016, pp. 166-167 (another example illustrated)

    • Literature

      Noriko Miyamura and Shinko Suzuki, eds., Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 1: Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs 1984-2010, Tokyo, 2011, no. E-2007-001, p. 314 (another example illustrated)

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Sleepless Night (Sitting)

polystone, flocky processing and mixed media
30 x 16 x 15 cm. (11 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.)
Produced by HOW2WORK, Hong Kong in 2007, this work is number 295 from an edition of 300, and is accompanied by a signed wooden certificate of authenticity issued by HOW2WORK, all contained within its original box. This work is registered in the Yoshitomo Nara Online Catalogue Raisonné under registration number YNF4696.

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Estimate
HK$200,000 - 300,000 
€23,100-34,600
$25,600-38,500

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Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, Hong Kong

27 August - 5 September 2024