Takashi Murakami - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 11, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Provenance

    Perrotin, Paris
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Oxford, Ashmoleon Museum, Tokyo: Art and Photography, 29 July–3 January 2022, pp. 202, 204 (illustrated, p. 203)

  • 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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Glory to Death (Multicolor)

signed and dated 'TAKASHI 2015' on the overlap
acrylic and platinum leaf on canvas laid down on aluminium
100.4 x 100 cm (39 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.)
Painted in 2015.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024