Happy Hour (with Drum & Bass)

Details

YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Happy Hour (with Drum & Bass)
signed in Japanese and dated '98' (on the reverse)
acrylic on paper
16 3⁄8 x 18 in. (41.6 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1998.

Provenance

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

Literature

N. Miyamura and S. Suzuki, eds., Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works, Volume 2: Works on Paper, Tokyo, 2011, p. 122, pl. D-1998-043 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

One such night, one song that played from the radio blew my mind…my whole precocious self was blown away! That song lit a fire in my raw teenage emotion. It was the Ramones! And then the Sex Pistols, and The Clash, and Bob Marley…they gave me an answer to how I’d live my life from then on.
– Yoshitomo Nara

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