YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)

Untitled (7 drawings)

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YOSHITOMO NARA (B. 1959)
Untitled (7 drawings)
(i) coloured pencil on paper, 25.5 x 20.4 cm. (10 x 8 in.);
(ii) coloured pencil on envelope, 14.5 x 11.2 cm. (5 3⁄4 x 4 3⁄8 in.);
(iii) coloured pencil on envelope, 33.5 x 24 cm. (13 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄2 in.);
(iv) coloured pencil on envelope, 16.8 x 23 cm. (6 5⁄8 x 9 in.);
(v) coloured pencil on envelope, 22.4 x 16.3 cm. (8 7⁄8 x 6 3⁄8 in.);
(vi) coloured pencil and ink on paper, 29.6 x 21 cm. (11 5⁄8 x 8 1⁄4 in.);
(vii) coloured pencil on envelope, 29 x 21.8 cm. (11 3⁄8 x 8 5⁄8 in.)
overall: 77 x 130 cm. (30 1⁄4 x 51 1⁄8 in.)
Executed in 2004-2005
Provenance
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Private collection, Japan
Private collection, Asia
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
N. Koyama, T. Shinoda and M. Tabata (eds.), YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Art Circus (Jumping from the Ordinary), exh. cat., Yamashita Pier, Yokohama, 2005 (illustrated, p. 129).
FOIL Co., Ltd, Yoshitomo Nara: Drawing File, Tokyo, 2005 (illustrated, unpaged).
Bijutsu Shuppan Sha, Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 2 – Works on Paper, Tokyo, 2011 (installation view illustrated, p. 226; illustrated, plate D-2005-013, p. 228).
Seigensha, Yoshitomo Nara: Self-selected Works – Works on Paper, Kyoto, 2015 (illustrated, p. 98).
Exhibited
Yokohama, Yamashita Pier, YOKOHAMA 2005: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Art Circus (Jumping from the Ordinary), September - December 2005.
Seoul, Rodin Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara: From the Depth of My Drawer, 2005.

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Lot Essay

“Looking back to when I was little...it didn’t matter where I drew. I did it during classes, on the side of a street on my way home from school, and of course at home. Drawing, for me, was different from other things like watercolor we were made to paint at school in that I drew things I thought of or wanted to say as though I were putting them in words or letters... In any case, for me, these turned out to be the point of origin for my drawing, the practice that I continue to this day.

This is a little, no, quite a bit different from the modes of expressions you learn at art schools; it's an artistic expression that is an extension of what I have been doing since childhood....these drawings are filled with smug confidence that a drawing can better convey my feelings than any words can.... I have been drawing as though I were breathing. Or taking notes. Or thinking.” - Yoshitomo Nara

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