Mine Detector

Details

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Mine Detector
signed and dated 'YOSHITOMO NARA '93' (on the overlap)
acrylic on canvas
150 x 100 cm. (59 x 39 3⁄8 in.)
Painted in 1993

Provenance

Galerie Humanité, Nagoya
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995

Literature

Resonating Sounds, Colours, and Shapes, exh. cat., Takamatsu Art Museum, 2008 (installation view, p. 11).
Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works 1984 - 2010, Volume I: Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo, 2011 (illustrated, plate P-1993-056, p. 95; listed, p. 380).
Yoshitomo Nara: Returning to the Origin, Bijutsu Techo, December 2012 (illustrated, p. 103).
The Yoshitomo Nara Foundation, Yoshitomo Nara: The Works, digital, ongoing (illustrated, no. P-1993-056).

Exhibited

Takamatsu Art Museum, Resonating Sounds, Colours, and Shapes, July - September 2008.
Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, STARS: Six Contemporary Artists from Japan to the World, July 2020 - January 2021.

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Lot Essay

“While the lily flower, recalling a specific type found in northern Japan, references Nara’s upbringing, it plays an important compositional role as well, its fragile coiling pulling the viewer back toward the center of the canvas.”
- Yeewan Koon, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong

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