Yoshitomo Nara Marching on a Butterbur Leaf 2019 Offset Lithograph Poster, Unsigned
Yoshitomo Nara Marching on a Butterbur Leaf 2019 Offset Lithograph Poster, Unsigned
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A Parade of One
Nara's girl marches on a giant butterbur leaf, a plant of his Aomori childhood. The mood is gentler than his early work, serious and a little comic at once.
Best for: A first Nara on the wall, or a gift for an admirer of his later work
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Described as new, opened once to check the contents. Issued rolled.
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A small girl in a pale blue dress strides across a giant butterbur leaf, a wooden stick raised like a baton and her eyes narrowed with purpose: Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, Yoshitomo Nara's 2019 image as an offset lithograph poster.
The Piece
The butterbur, fuki, grows wild across northern Japan, with leaves broad enough for a child to shelter beneath, and in Aomori, where Nara grew up, it belongs to every childhood summer. Nara has often set his children on or under these leaves, part folk tale, part memory. Here the leaf becomes a stage or a raft, and the girl marches on it with all the seriousness of a small parade.
The palette is soft and earthy, olive green, sky blue and warm brown on a pale ground, and the drawing has the softened, layered quality of his paintings from these years, less defiant than his 1990s girls and more inward.
The poster is unsigned and no edition is stated. It is described as new, opened once to check the contents; it was issued rolled, as the photographs show.
Details
- Artist: Yoshitomo Nara
- Title: Marching on a Butterbur Leaf
- Year: 2019
- Medium: Offset lithograph
- Edition: Not stated
- Signature: Unsigned
- Sheet: 61 x 45.7 cm (24 x 18 in)
- Frame: Unframed
- Condition: New, opened once
Condition
- Described as new, opened once to check the contents.
- Issued rolled; it will relax flat with time under light weight.
Condition grade S (unused, as new) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Details are given as the description states them. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing with acid-free mounts, and hang away from sun and damp.
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