Yoshitomo Nara - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
    Private Collection (acquired from the above)
    Phillips, Hong Kong, May 28, 2017, lot 5
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Chatou, CNEAI, Who Snatched the Babies?, June–September 2002
    Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; San Jose Museum of Art; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, Nothing Ever Happens, September 2003–May 2005
    New York, Asia Society Museum, Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody’s Fool, September 9, 2010–January 2, 2011

  • Literature

    Jacques Prévert, Tori e no aisatsu, Tokyo, 2006
    Noriko Miyamura and Shinko Suzuki, eds., Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 2: Works on Paper 1984-2010, Tokyo, 2011, no. D-2002-125, p. 372 (illustrated, p. 188)

407

Untitled (Who Snatched the Babies)

colored pencil on paper
11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (29.5 x 21 cm)
Executed in 2001-2002.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $75,600

Contact Specialist

Patrizia Koenig
Specialist, Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
+1 212 940 1279
pkoenig@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 19 May 2022