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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Life is Only One; My Little Treasure; I Dont Want to Grow Up; Gypsy Song; Dont Wanna Cry; Walk On; Poindexter; 1-2-3-4 Pissed Off !; Hateful Christmas; & S.O.S.
signed with artist’s signature, dated and numbered ‘36/50 2010’ (lower edge)
a complete set of 10 Ukiyo-e woodcuts on Japanese paper
each: 42 x 29.5 cm. (16 1/2 x 11 3/5 in.) (10)
Executed in 2010
edition 36/50 + AP 12
Provenance
Pace, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
N. Miyamura and S. Suzuki (ed), Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Volume 1: Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs 1984-2010, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo, 2011 (illustrated, p. 315; plate E-2010-003; 004; 005; 006; 007; 008; 009; 010; 011; & 012).

Life is Only One
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Mlaga, Yoshitomo Nara+graf- Torre de Mlaga, exh. cat., Ayuntamiento de Mlaga, 2007 (painting version illustrated, p. 54).
Yoshitomo Nara (ed.), Yoshitomo Nara, Self-selected Works, Works on Paper, Seigensha, Kyoto, 2015 (another edition illustrated, p.117, p.157).
Yeewan Koon, Yoshitomo Nara, Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 2020 (painting version illustrated, p.152).

I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Yoshitomo Nara (ed.), Yoshitomo Nara, Self-selected Works, Works on Paper, Seigensha, Kyoto, 2015 (another edition illustrated, p.115, p.157).
Yoshitomo Nara for better or worse: Works 1987-2017, exh. cat., Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, 2017 (another edition illustrated, p. 37 and 89).
Yoshitomo Nara, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2020 (another edition illustrated, p. 172).
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Lot Essay

“...the full-body portrait in front of a neutral background, the relationship between figure and the picture plane, the image-object and the empty surrounding space, the connection between the image sign and the text sign, the blurring of the boundary between printmaking and painting – all can be found in Nara’s art as well as in colored prints from the 18th and 19th centuries by Hiroshige, Hokusai or Utamaro” - Stephan Trescher on Yoshitomo Nara

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