MADSAKI Happiness Overdose Yellow_P 2020 Silkscreen, Round Smiley, Signed Edition of 100
MADSAKI Happiness Overdose Yellow_P 2020 Silkscreen, Round Smiley, Signed Edition of 100
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A Smile with a Nosebleed
MADSAKI takes the most cheerful face in graphic design and lets a single red drip undo it. The title says the rest: happiness, taken too far.
Best for: Collectors of the Kaikai Kiki circle and of pop art with an edge
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Described as new and unused, kept as a loose sheet and never framed. Not yet examined in hand.
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Happiness Overdose Yellow_P, a 2020 silkscreen by MADSAKI, from a small edition of 100 and offered as signed. A round image 45 cm across on a square sheet of 50 x 50 cm.
The Piece
The smiley is one of the most borrowed images in popular culture, and MADSAKI borrows it with intent. Here a flat orange-yellow disc carries two black oval eyes and the familiar wide grin, but from the nose runs a drip of red paint, falling straight down across the smile. The joke lands at once, and then it curdles a little.
MADSAKI is a painter shown by Kaikai Kiki, the company founded by Takashi Murakami, and he is best known for spray-paint works that remake famous images with a deliberately wobbly hand. Silkscreen gives this print its clean, saturated colour. The close photograph shows the pencil signature and date beneath the image; the page describes the sheet as bought from Kaikai Kiki and kept unframed.
Details
- Artist: MADSAKI
- Title: Happiness Overdose Yellow_P
- Year: 2020
- Medium: Silkscreen on paper
- Edition: 100 (as stated)
- Signature: Offered as signed and dated in pencil, shown in the close photograph
- Image size: 45 cm (17.7 in) diameter
- Sheet size: 50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 in)
- Framing: Unframed loose sheet
- Publisher: Kaikai Kiki, as described
- Condition: Described as new and unused
Condition
- Described as new and unused, kept as a loose sheet and never framed.
- The Desk has not handled the sheet; the edition number is not shown in the photographs.
Condition grade S (unused, as new) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Offered as signed and from an edition of 100, as the page states; we present that claim as given and not as our own finding. Frame with acid-free mounts and UV-filtering glazing, out of direct sunlight.
Delivery from Japan
The sheet is shipped flat, never rolled, in its original rigid packing, insured and tracked. 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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