Yoshitomo Nara - Contemporary Evening Sale London Sunday, July 5, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Marianne Boesky, New York

  • Exhibited

    New York, Thompkins Square Park, Your Dog - A Sculptural Pavillion, July, - August, 2002 (another example exhibited); Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, September, 2003 - January, 2004 (another example exhibited); Newport Beach, Orange County Museum of Art, Yoshitomo Nara: Your Dog, November, 2003 - June, 2004 (another example exhibited); San Jose, Museum of Art, Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, July - October, 2004 (another example exhibited); Miami, Art Basel Miami, Yoshitomo Nara: Your Dog Sculptural Pavillion, December, 2004 (another example exhibited); Fort Lauderdale, Museum of Art, extended loan, October, 2004 - March, 2005 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    S. Mizota, 'Little Triggers', Metro: Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, July 2004K. Chun, 'Killer Cute: Yoshitomo Nara's work bites back at the San Jose Museum of Art', The San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 2004, vol. 38, no. 51

  • Catalogue Essay

    Japanese artist, Yoshitomo Nara, has produced a body of work that evokes a mass array of human emotions, including: fear, anxiety, joy, playfulness, hope, insecurity and confidence. His figures exist in a dream-like state where reality becomes what you make of it. They are ferociously independent and full of defiance. Throughout his practice, he has provoked a deep sense of memory and the allure of youth while simultaneously leaving a constant reminder of the problems and concerns of adulthood. Nara's work embodies a defiant spirit that comes with youthful optimism and belief that we can change the world. Influenced by popular culture from punk music,rock'n'roll and Manga, to the American cartoons of his childhood such as Walt Disney's animations, Nara explores the tensions of a hyper-consumer culture. (F. Cherie, ‘Reality is what you make of it, 'Aesthetica, August - September, 2008, p. 34)

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Your Dog

2002
Fibreglass.
182.9 x 129.5 x 274.3 cm. (72 x 51 x 108 in).
This work is from an edition of six.

Estimate
£120,000 - 180,000 

Sold for £121,250

Contemporary Evening Sale

29 June 2009, 7pm
London