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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
In the Floating World (set of 16)
each signed with artist's signature, numbered, and dated '50/50 '99' (lower edge)
reworked woodcut, Fuji Xerox copy
each: 41.3 x 28.5 cm. (16 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.) (16)
Executed in 1999
edition: 50/50 + 10 AP
Provenance
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Private collection, Japan (acquired from the above)
Phillips Hong Kong, 9 July 2020, lot 130
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
S. Goto (ed.), Yoshitomo Nara: Ukiyo, Masakazu Takei (Little More), Tokyo, 1999 (another edition illustrated).
M. Rothenberger (ed.), Yoshitomo Nara: Lullaby Supermarket, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2001 (another edition illustrated, p. 66-71).
T. Amano, I DON'T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME, exh. cat., Yokohama Museum of Art, 2001 (another edition partially illustrated, p.130).
M. Chiu and M. Tezuka (ed.), Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum, New York, 2010 (another edition partially illustrated, p. 102, 132-133).
N. Miyamura and S. Suzuki (ed.), Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 1: Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs 1984-2010, Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Tokyo, 2011 (another edition illustrated, p. 308-309).
M. Yoshitake (ed.), Yoshitomo Nara, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020 (another edition partially illustrated, p. 130-131).
Y. Koon, Yoshitomo Nara, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2020 (another edition partially illustrated, p. 100-101).
The Yoshitomo Nara Foundation, Yoshitomo Nara: The Works, digital, ongoing (illustrated, no. YNF2558-2573).
Exhibited
Tokyo, NADiff, In the Floating World, 2 April – 10 May 1999 (another edition exhibited).
The Hague, GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, Yoshitomo Nara + graf, 2 June – 28 October 2007 (another edition exhibited).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yoshitomo Nara, 5 April – 20 August 2020 (another edition partially exhibited).
West Jakarta, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, Pointing to the Synchronous Windows,10 May – 5 October 2025 (another edition exhibited).
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