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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2012 | Christie's | New York | First Open Post-War Contemporary Art | 33 | $****** - ****** | Pilgrim Heads |
sculpture
35.6 x 48.6 x 24.4 cm (14.02 x 19.13 x 9.61 in)
five elements--acrylic, lacquer and cotton collage on fiberglass reinforced plastic
signed and dated 'Nara '99' (on the reverse of each element)
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001.
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Lullaby Supermarket, March-May 2000 (another example exhibited). Cologne, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, In the Empty Fortress, March-April 2000 (another example exhibited). London, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara, May-June 2000 (another example exhibited). Stadtgalerie Saarbrüken; Städtische Galerie Erlangen and Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De lakenhal, Trading Views: 4 x Japanische Kunst, February-October 2000 (another example exhibited). Amsterdam, De Appel Foundation, Dark Mirrors of Japan, June-August 2000 (another example exhibited). Barcelona, Fundació la Caixa, Retorn al pais de les meravelles: El arte contemporáneo y la infancia, April-July 2001, pp. 57, 78 and 144 (illustrated in color, another example exhibited). Taipei, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fiction.Love: Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, August-October 2004, p. 129 (illustrated in color).
N. Miyamura and S. Suzuki, eds., Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works: Paintings, Sculptures, Editions, Photographs, vol. 1, San Francisco, 2011, pp. 267 and 396, no. S-1999-002 (another example illustrated in color).
