Takashi Murakami Blue Life Force 2012 Offset Poster, 50 x 70 cm, Open Edition, Unsigned, Unused
Takashi Murakami Blue Life Force 2012 Offset Poster, 50 x 70 cm, Open Edition, Unsigned, Unused
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Skulls in Full Bloom
Blue Life Force packs Murakami's grinning skulls so densely that they read from across a room as a single shimmering blue field. Up close, flowers and coloured eyes glint among the bone white. Life and death share the same crowded surface, which is exactly the point.
Best for: Collectors wanting a large Murakami skull image at an approachable price
Condition notes
New and unused; kept flat as a loose sheet and never framed.
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Takashi Murakami's Blue Life Force, 2012: a four-colour offset poster on a 50 x 70 cm sheet, open edition, unsigned, new and unused.
The Piece
Skulls have shadowed Murakami's smiling flowers for years, a reminder that his bright Superflat world was born from Japan's anxieties as much as its cartoons. In Blue Life Force the skulls take over completely: hundreds of them, large and small, pressed together edge to edge until the whole field shimmers.
The palette is cool and deep, cobalt and turquoise around bone white, broken by flashes of pink, yellow and the occasional flower or brightly coloured eye. From a distance it reads as a single glittering surface; up close it becomes an endless crowd of grinning faces.
A printed line at the foot carries the name of the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo.
Details
- Artist: Takashi Murakami
- Title: Blue Life Force
- Year: 2012
- Medium: Four-colour offset print
- Edition: Open edition
- Signature: Unsigned
- Sheet: 50 x 70 cm (19.7 x 27.6 in)
- Frame: Unframed
Size as stated; 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 described.
Condition grade S (unused) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
An open-edition poster, unsigned, examined and documented in Japan before dispatch. Every piece carries the Japonista authenticity guarantee. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing and keep away from damp.
Delivery from Japan
The poster travels flat between rigid boards, never in a tube. 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.
Considered offers are welcome through Send an Offer, and each one is reviewed personally. More of the artist in Takashi Murakami, Kaikai Kiki and Superflat, and the wider story in Collecting Takashi Murakami.
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