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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Untitled
inscribed in Japanese (left vertical edge)
coloured pencil and graphite on envelope
712 x 958in. (19 x 24.5cm.)
Executed in 2003
Provenance
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo.
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above in 2004).
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
N. Miyamura and S. Suzuki (eds.), Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Vol. II: Works on Paper, San Francisco 2011, p. 378, no. D-2003-138 (illustrated in colour, p. 209).
Exhibited
Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, 2003-2005, no. 1. This exhibition later travelled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; San Jose, San Jose Museum of Art; St Louis, Contemporary Art Museum and Honolulu, The Contemporary Museum.
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