The Girl with Black Eye

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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

Provenance

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

Literature

Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works 1984 - 2010, Volume I: Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo, 2011 (illustrated, plate P-1999-035, p. 160).

Exhibited

Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Festival, Painting Expression, October 1999.
Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Works by Nara Yoshitomo in Yokohama Museum of Art Collection, January - March 2011.

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Lot Essay

“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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