Attack the Rotten World

Details

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Attack the Rotten World
signed and dated 'Yoshitomo Nara '95' (lower right)
acrylic, coloured pencil and charcoal on two attached newspaper sheets
13 x 19in. (33 x 48.3cm.)
Executed in 1995

Provenance

Private Collection, Los Angeles.
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s New York, 10 November 2004, lot 466.
Private Collection, California (acquired at the above sale).
Royal/T, Culver City.
Private Collection (acquired from the above).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s New York, 12 November 2009, lot 345.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Bijutsu Shuppsn Sha, Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Works on Paper, vol. II, Tokyo 2011, p. 340, no. D-1995-003 (illustrated in colour, p. 76).

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Lot Essay

‘I become disillusioned by the sometimes meaningless act of sending things out into the world, but then there’s always a tomorrow’
(Y. Nara, quoted in ‘Diary entry’, in Nara: Nothing Ever Happens, exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Los Angeles, 2004, p. 2).

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