Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese, b.1959)

LOT ID: 67502

Sleepless Night Sitting, 2007

Mixed Media Sculpture Edition, Flocked and hand painted polystone, wood bench

11 х 5.5 х 6.5 in. cm.

Unsigned

Edition 300

Foundry/Publisher How2work, Hong Kong

Lot description

Sculpture is in excellent condition. 11.00 x 5.50 x 6.50. edition 300

Yoshitomo Nara first came to the forefront of the art world during Japan’s Pop art movement in the 1990s. The subject matter of his sculptures and paintings is deceptively simple: most works depict one seemingly innocuous subject (often pastel-hued children and animals drawn with confident, cartoonish lines) with little or no background. But these children, who appear at first to be cute and even vulnerable, sometimes brandish weapons like knives and saws. Their wide eyes often hold accusatory looks that could be sleepy-eyed irritation at being awoken from a nap—or that could be undiluted expressions of hate.The artist views children are metaphors for a world marked with confusion and helplessness towards an unknowable future. In much of his work, he is also commenting on the psychological repercussions World War II on Japanese society.

Select Public Collections:
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA)
Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX)

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History and Provenance
Provenance:
Private Collection, Hong Kong
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