Takashi Murakami October Story 2019 Silkscreen, Edition of 100, Hand-Signed, Purple and Red Flowers
Takashi Murakami October Story 2019 Silkscreen, Edition of 100, Hand-Signed, Purple and Red Flowers
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The flower as a single line
Murakami strips his smiling flower back to a red outline on violet and repeats it to every edge. The result is closer to pattern than picture, and the two colours vibrate. A compact, signed edition of 100 that frames well at a modest size.
Best for: A smaller wall, or a first signed Murakami
Condition notes
New and unused; kept flat and unframed since acquired.
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October Story, a silkscreen of 2019 by Takashi Murakami, offered as hand-signed and numbered from an edition of 100. Described as acquired from Kaikai Kiki and kept flat, unframed, as a sheet ever since; unused.
The Piece
Here the smiling flower is reduced to its outline. Dozens of blossoms, large and small, are drawn in a single red line on a violet ground, their petals and grinning faces locked together like cells, so the pattern runs to every edge of the image without a break.
Stripped of the rainbow palette of his best-known flower works, the print becomes almost graphic, closer to a textile or a wallpaper repeat, and the two strong colours vibrate against each other as the eye moves across them.
Silkscreen lays each colour down flat and even, which suits a design built on a single crisp line.
Details
- Artist: Takashi Murakami
- Title: October Story
- Year: 2019
- Medium: Silkscreen
- Edition: 100, as stated
- Signature: Offered as hand-signed and numbered
- Image size: 33 x 37.3 cm (13 x 14.7 in)
- Sheet size: 38 x 47 cm (15 x 18.5 in)
- Frame: Unframed
- Origin: Japan
Sizes as stated; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 to 2 cm (0.5 in).
Condition
- New and unused, kept flat as a sheet and never framed.
- It will travel in the packaging in which it was first delivered.
Condition grade S (unused) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Offered as hand-signed and numbered from the edition of 100, and described as acquired from Kaikai Kiki; this has not been verified by an outside authority, and a team of curators reviews each piece from photographs before it is offered. Frame behind UV-filtering glazing and keep away from damp.
Delivery from Japan
The print travels flat between rigid boards, never rolled, packed by hand in Japan and shipped insured and tracked by EMS or an equivalent express service. 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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