Lot 101
Lot 101
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI (B. 1940)

Tokyo Comedy-Yakuza

Price Realised GBP 8,820
Estimate
GBP 10,000 - GBP 15,000
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NOBUYOSHI ARAKI (B. 1940)

Tokyo Comedy-Yakuza

Price Realised GBP 8,820
Price Realised GBP 8,820
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NOBUYOSHI ARAKI (B. 1940)
Tokyo Comedy-Yakuza
signed 'Nobuyoshi ARAKI' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print
image: 2218 x 3314in. (56.3 x 84.4cm.)
sheet: 2358 x 3478in. (60 x 88.5cm.)
Photographed in 1997 and printed in 2018
Provenance
Private Collection, London.
Literature
New York, Museum of Sex, The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki, 2018 (another version exhibited).
Exhibited
K. Rhomberg and H. Motoo (eds.), Tokyo Comedy: Nobuyoshi Araki, exh. cat., Kyoto 1997 (another version illustrated, unpaged).
N. Araki (ed.), Araki by Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection, New York 2003 (another version illustrated, pp. 356-357).
Y. Isshiki, A. Miki and T. Sato (eds.), Self, Life, Death, exh cat., London 2005 (another version illustrated, p. 650).
G. Celant (ed.), Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyomania, exh. cat., Paris 2006 (another version illustrated, pp. 23-24 and 52).
J. Sans, Araki, Cologne 2007 (another version illustrated, p. 251).
J. Neutres (ed.), Nobuyoshi Araki: Rétrospective, exh. cat., Paris 2016, p. 293 (another version illustrated, p. 86).
N. Araki, D. Sylvain and F. Sylvain, Nobuyoshi Araki. Leçon de photo intégrale, Tokyo 2018, p. 145, no. 214 (another version illustrated, p. 144).
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