Takashi Murakami Self-Portrait of the Manifold Worries, 2017 Offset Print with Foil, Signed, Edition of 300
Takashi Murakami Self-Portrait of the Manifold Worries, 2017 Offset Print with Foil, Signed, Edition of 300
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An Artist Among His Worries
Murakami's cartoon self-portrait appears again and again across a dense field of flowers, each version more anxious, exasperated or bewildered than the last, with speech bubbles of crowded text floating between them. The title is as long-winded as the worries it describes. It is funny, candid and unusually personal.
Best for: Collectors wanting Murakami at his most self-revealing, in a large format
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New and unused; kept flat as a loose sheet and never framed.
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Takashi Murakami's Self-Portrait of the Manifold Worries of a Manifoldly Distressed Artist of 2017: an offset print with cold stamp foil and high gloss varnish on a 72 x 72 cm sheet, offered as signed, from an edition of 300.
The Piece
Murakami draws himself as a cartoon, with round glasses, blue hair tied back and a wisp of beard, and in this print that self-portrait multiplies across a dense meadow of smiling flowers. Each head wears a different face of anxiety: one droops with exhaustion, one frowns, one squints sideways, one cries out, and speech bubbles crowded with tiny text float among them like thoughts that will not stop.
The title, with its doubled "manifold", is a joke at the artist's own expense, and the image is both funny and frank about the pressures of a life spent making work. Small characters from Murakami's world peep out from the flowers.
Details
- Artist: Takashi Murakami
- Title: Self-Portrait of the Manifold Worries of a Manifoldly Distressed Artist
- Year: 2017
- Medium: Four-colour offset print with cold stamp foil and high gloss varnish
- Edition: 300
- Signature: Signed
- Publisher: Kaikai Kiki
- Sheet: 72 x 72 cm (28.3 x 28.3 in)
- Frame: Unframed
Sizes are approximate; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in).
Condition
- New and unused; kept flat as a loose sheet, never framed or hung.
- No marks or creases are noted.
Condition grade S (unused) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Signed, from the Kaikai Kiki edition of 300; the signature is not yet photographed, and close photographs can be sent before you commit. Every piece carries the Japonista authenticity guarantee. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing and keep away from damp.
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Never rolled: the sheet travels flat in rigid original packing, boxed again. At this size the shipping charge is quoted and agreed with you before purchase. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
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