Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)

Dog from Screen Memory

Details

Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Dog from Screen Memory
acrylic, lacquer, fabric and urethane on Fiberglas, in two parts
front: 34 ¾ x 32 5/8 x 33 1/8 in. (88.3 x 82.9 x 84.1 cm.)
back: 44 1/8 x 36 x 24 7/8 in. (112.1 x 91.4 x 63.2 cm.)
Executed in 1999. This work is unique.

Provenance

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003

Literature

M. Rothenberger, ed., Yoshitomo Nara, Lullaby Supermarket, Nuremberg, 2001, pp. 133 and 197 (illustrated).
N. Miyamura and S. Suzuki, eds., Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Volume 1: Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs 1984-2010, Tokyo, 2011, pp. 269 and 397, no. S-1999-007 (illustrated).

Exhibited

London, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara, May-June 2000.

Lot Essay

“Seeing the children or animals as my other self, it signified me leaving the familiar confines of Japan and liberating myself from my surroundings.” Yoshimoto Nara
(Y. Nara, quoted in Yoshimoto Nara+graf, exh. cat., Torre de Málaga, 21 September 2007-6 January 2008, p. 15).

Dog from Screen Memory

Lot Essay

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