Untitled (Who Snatched the Babies) by Yoshitomo Nara
Medium: Pen & Coloured Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm
Year: 2002
Price on request
Status: available
- Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York - Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale 2017 - Acquired from Curator Style Hong Kong This work was exhibited in: (vi) New York, Asia Society Museum, Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, 9 September 2010 - 2 January 2011, p. 211 (illustrated) Literature: Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 2: Works on Paper 1984 – 2010, Tokyo, 2011, (i) p. 189, no. D-2002-138 (illustrated); (ii) p. 189, no. D-2002-134 (illustrated); (iii) p. 189, no. D-2002-140 (illustrated); (iv) p. 189, no. D-2002-143 (illustrated); (v) p. 189, no. D-2002-128 (illustrated); (vi) p. 188, no. D-2002-125 (illustrated) Who Snatched the Babies? Yoshitomo Nara, exh. cat., Impression Jouve, Paris; Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, 2002, (iv) p. 10 (illustrated); (v) p. 42 (illustrated)
Why collect this work?
Untitled (Who Snatched the Babies) offers a focused way to encounter Yoshitomo Nara's practice through a specific work and its recorded materials.
- Yoshitomo Nara's practice is described through Yoshitomo Nara is a contemporary Japanese artist born in 1959 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture. He is best known for his distinctive paintings, sculptures, and drawings that feature childlike figures, often with oversized heads and expressive, sometimes melancho.
- - Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
- Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale 2017
- Acquired from Curator Style Hong Kong
This work was exhibited in:
(vi) New York, Asia Society Museum, Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool, 9 September 2010 - 2 January 2011, p. 211 (illustrated)
Literature:
Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works Volume 2: Works on Paper 1984 – 2010, Tokyo, 2011, (i) p. 189, no. D-2002-138 (illustrated); (ii) p. 189, no. D-2002-134 (illustrated); (iii) p. 189, no.
- The recorded technique or medium is Pen & Coloured Pencil on Paper.
- At 29.5 x 21 cm, it can be considered for collections that have room for a work of this scale.
About the Artist
Yoshitomo Nara
Nationality: Japanese
Contemporary artist known for whimsical, childlike figures in his work.
