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Takashi Murakami (Japanese, b.1962)
LOT ID: 66247
A Picture Of The Blessed Lion Who Stares At Death, 2010

Offset lithograph, in colors
28 х 55 in. cm.
Signed, and numbered "163/300"
Edition 163/300
Foundry/Publisher Kaikai Kiki Co, Ltd. Japon
Lot description
Offset lithograph on UV paper, hand signed by the artist. Numbered edition of 300. Published by Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd, Japan.

Murakami is one of the most significant artists of the younger generation to emerge from Japan. He is considered to be the Japanese Andy Warhol. In synthesizing popular culture and traditional form, Murakami's work has pervaded both high and low culture. A major retrospective of Murakami, organized and exhibited by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, toured to the Brooklyn Museum in 2008.

In 2009, the famed Gagosian Gallery featured Takashi Murakami with an exhibition “Picture of Fate: I Am But A Fisherman Who Angles in the Darkness of his Mind”. Takashi Murakami's new large-scale unique piece “A Picture Of The Blessed Lion Who Stares At Death” was part of the show. This print is based on that unique work.
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