Takashi Murakami - Evening & Day Editions New York Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Catalogue Essay

    Artworks ©2013 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd., All Rights Reserved.

  • Artist Biography

    Takashi Murakami

    Japanese • 1962

    Takashi Murakami is best known for his contemporary combination of fine art and pop culture. He uses recognizable iconography like Mickey Mouse and cartoonish flowers and infuses it with Japanese culture. The result is a boldly colorful body of work that takes the shape of paintings, sculptures and animations.

    In the 1990s, Murakami founded the Superflat movement in an attempt to expose the "shallow emptiness of Japanese consumer culture." The artist plays on the familiar aesthetic of mangas, Japanese-language comics, to render works that appear democratic and accessible, all the while denouncing the universality and unspecificity of consumer goods. True to form, Murakami has done collaborations with numerous brands and celebrities including Kanye West, Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams and Google.

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THIS LOT IS OFFERED AT NO RESERVE

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Lot offered with No Reserve

And Then x 6 (Marine Blue: The Superflat Method); And Then x 6 (White: The Superflat Method, Pink and Blue Ears); And Then, And Then And Then And Then And Then. Yellow Universe; and And Then x g (White: The Superflat Method, Blue and Yellow Ears)

2013
Four offset lithographs, on smooth wove paper, the full sheets,
all S. 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (49.5 x 49.5 cm)
all signed and numbered 135/300, 152/300, 156/300 and 77/300 respectively in black ink, published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd, Tokyo, all framed.

Estimate
$6,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $5,250

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 28 October 2014 11am & 5:30pm