Yoshitomo Nara Slash with a Knife 1999, In the Floating World Reworked Woodcut, 32/50, Offered as Signed
Yoshitomo Nara Slash with a Knife 1999, In the Floating World Reworked Woodcut, 32/50, Offered as Signed
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Graffiti on the Floating World
Nara answers the print tradition he grew up with by scribbling on it. The gesture is cheeky and affectionate at once, and it ties his punk hand to Edo line.
Best for: Collectors drawn to the meeting of ukiyo-e and contemporary Japanese art
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Described as free of noticeable marks or soiling. Colours bright in the photographs.
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A ukiyo-e figure is overrun by a breaking wave, a knife glints at one side, and the title is scrawled across the sheet in red: Slash with a Knife, from Yoshitomo Nara’s 1999 series In the Floating World.
The Piece
For this series Nara took Edo-period woodblock images and drew over them, treating the old masters as a wall to be tagged. Here the foam of a great wave swallows the head, yellow stars burst beside the blade, and his own hand-lettering cuts through the composition. The description gives the technique as a reworked woodcut printed with Fuji Xerox.
The sheet is numbered 32/50 and is offered as signed and dated in pencil along the lower edge; the signature, number and the year can be made out in the photographs. A certificate of authenticity issued in Hong Kong, fixed to the reverse of the frame, accompanies it.
It hangs behind a double mat in a pale wood frame with a white inner fillet.
Details
- Artist: Yoshitomo Nara
- Title: Slash with a Knife
- Series: In the Floating World
- Year: 1999
- Medium: Reworked woodcut, Fuji Xerox print
- Edition: 32/50, as described
- Signature: Offered as signed and dated in pencil
- Image: About 34.6 x 25.7 cm (13.6 x 10.1 in)
- Sheet: About 41.5 x 29.5 cm (16.3 x 11.6 in)
- Frame: Pale wood with double mat, glazed; outer size being confirmed against our archive records
- Documentation: Certificate of authenticity on the reverse
Condition
- Described as free of noticeable marks or soiling.
- Colours bright in the photographs; reflections in the glazing.
Condition grade A (excellent, very light signs of age) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
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Signature, edition and certificate are given as the description states them. Hang away from sun and damp.
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