Takashi Murakami Cherry Blossoms Are in Full Bloom Poster, Kaikai Kiki, Unused in the Original Carton
Takashi Murakami Cherry Blossoms Are in Full Bloom Poster, Kaikai Kiki, Unused in the Original Carton
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Cherry Blossoms Are in Full Bloom, an official Kaikai Kiki poster of Takashi Murakami’s great pink cherry tree against a field of gold, unused and kept in its original carton.
The Piece
Takashi Murakami, born in Tokyo in 1962, built the Superflat movement on the flat colour and dense patterning of Japanese painting and animation, and Kaikai Kiki, the studio he founded, publishes his images as posters and prints with the same care it gives his paintings.
His cherry blossom series looks back to the gold-leaf screens of the Momoyama period. Here a single tree swells into a cloud of thousands of smiling pink and white flowers, a few red and pale blue blooms scattered through it, over a ground of gold strewn with falling petals, and small figures from his cast peep out at the foot of the trunk.
The carton still carries its Kaikai Kiki label with the title in English and Japanese. The poster has never been hung and has been kept indoors at home.
Details
- Artist: Takashi Murakami
- Publisher: Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo
- Title: Cherry Blossoms Are in Full Bloom
- Type: Art poster
- Palette: Pink and white blossom on gold
- State: Unused, never hung
- Packaging: Original Kaikai Kiki carton with title label
- Storage: Kept indoors at home
- Condition: Near new
Condition
- Unused and never hung.
- Kept indoors at home; the carton shows light storage handling.
Condition grade A (very good) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
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Every piece is checked by hand in Tokyo before it leaves us. Keep the sheet flat and dry until framing, and frame it behind UV-filtering glazing away from direct sun.
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