Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)

Sorry, Couldn't Draw Right Eye

Details
Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959)
Sorry, Couldn't Draw Right Eye
acrylic, paper collage and tape on paper
53 1/2 x 49 1/4 in. (135.9 x 125 cm.)
Executed in 2005.
Provenance
Marianne Boesky, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Bijutsu Shuppsn Sha, Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Volume 2: Works on Paper, Tokyo, 2011, no. D-2005-002, p. 227 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“They say human eyes are the mirror of the soul, and I used to draw them too carelessly. Say, to express the anger, I just drew some triangular eyes. I drew obviously-angry eyes, projected my anger there, and somehow released my pent-up emotions. About ten years ago, however, I became more interested in expressing complex feelings in a more complex way. I began to stop and think, to take a breath before letting everything out.”
- Yoshitomo Nara, quoted in H. Furukawa, “An interview with Yoshitomo Nara,” Asymptote Journal, January 2014.

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