LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil paint, acrylic, synthetic resin, fiberglass, and iron

Measurements:

72.01 in. (182.90 cm.) (height) by 25.00 in. (63.50 cm.) (width) by 32.52 in. (82.60 cm.) (width)

Edition:

This work is from an edition of 3 plus 1 AP.

Markings:

Signed 'TAKASHI' and inscribed with the names of his assistants who contributed to the execution of the work (inside the torso).

Exhibited:

New York, Feature, Murakami: Hiropon, Project ko2, February-March 1997 (another example exhibited); Tokyo, Big Sight, Wonder Festival '98, January 1998 (another example exhibited); Annandale-on-Hudson, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Takashi Murakami The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning, June-September 1999, pp. 38, 58 and 60, pl. 15 (another example exhibited and illustrated); Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, TAKASHI MURAKAMI: summon monsters? open the door? heal? or die?, August 25 -November 4, 2001, pl. f, no. 27 (another example exhibited and illustrated); Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, c Murakami, October 29, 2007 - February 11, 2008; New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, April 5 - July 13, 2008; and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, February 17 - May 31, 2009, pp. 83 - 85 (another example exhibited and illustrated); Chateau de Versailles, Murakami Versailles, September 14 - December 12, 2010 (another example exhibited and illustrated)

Literature:

G. Molinari, Takashi Murakami, in Flash Art, March/April 1998, p. 106 (another example illustrated); Wonder festival '98, in Design Plex, March 1998, p. 28 (illustrated); M. Asano, The Readymade Hall of Fame, in Monthly Model Graphix, April 1998, pp. 43 - 49 (another example illustrated); M. Matsui, Takashi Murakami, in Index, November 1998, p. 49 (another example illustrated); K. Itoi, Pop Goes the Artist, in Newsweek, Summer 2001 (Special Issue), p. 86 (another example illustrated); H. Kelmachter, Takashi Murakami Kaikai Kiki, Paris 2002, p. 77 (another example illustrated); J. Roberts, Magic Mushrooms, in Frieze, October 2002, p. 68; J. Huckbody, Shooting from the hip, in i-D Magazine, February 2003, p. 81 (another example illustrated); N. Ratnam, interview in i-D Magazine, February 2003, p. 86 (another example illustrated); A. Browne, When Takashi Met Marc, in V, Issue 22, March - April 2003 (another example illustrated); M. Naves, Warhol, Porn and Vuitton, in The New York Observer,April 15, 2008

Provenance:

Marianne Boesky, New York