Takashi Murakami - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 9 June 2016

  • Catalogue Essay

    Artworks ©2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014 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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Takashi Murakami

Flowers With Smiley Faces; Such Cute Flowers; Flowers, Flowers, Flowers; Open Your Hands Wide, Embrace Happiness!; Field of Smiling Flowers; If I Could Reach That Field of Flowers, I Would Die Happy; Maiden In The Yellow Straw Hat; The Future Will Be Full of Smile! For Sure!; and Poporoke Forest

2010-2014
Nine offset lithographs in colours, on smooth wove paper, the full sheets,
one S. 86 x 67 cm (33 7/8 x 26 3/8 in.)
three S. 67 x 67 cm (26 3/8 x 26 3/8 in.)
two S. 60 x 60 cm (23 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.)
three S. 50 x 50 cm (19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
all signed and numbered variously from the edition of 300 in silver ink, published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, all framed.

Estimate
£2,500 - 3,000 •‡

Sold for £4,000

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 9 June 2016