Takashi Murakami - Wired: Online Auction London Monday, April 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection
    SBI Art Auction, Tokyo, 27-28 January 2023, lot 242
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Tokyo, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, I Love Prints and So I Make Them, 9-23 October 2009, no. 35, pp. 60, 123 (another example exhibited and illustrated)

  • 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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Property from a Private Collection

87

Making a U-Turn, the Lost Child Finds His Way Home

signed, numbered and dated 'Takashi Murakami 04. P.P. 2/2' lower margin
screenprint on paper
70 x 70 cm (27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2004, this work is printer's proof 2 from an edition of 50 plus 10 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs.

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for £2,286

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Wired: Online Auction

15 - 24 April 2024