Yoshitomo Nara Tomio Koyama Gallery Telemag Television Viewer, Signed and Dated 97, Early Version
Yoshitomo Nara Tomio Koyama Gallery Telemag Television Viewer, Signed and Dated 97, Early Version
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Eleven Paintings in Your Palm
Before the museum retrospectives, Nara's girls travelled in small things like this, a toy television that clicks through his paintings of the 1990s. It holds the intimacy of his early Tomio Koyama years. The dated base signature makes it a personal memento of that moment.
Best for: Nara collectors who love early gallery objects
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Shell bright; light residue along the back panel seams. Reel images clear.
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A pocket television in turquoise plastic that shows, frame by frame, eleven of Yoshitomo Nara's paintings from the 1990s, made for Tomio Koyama Gallery and offered as signed by the artist and dated '97 on its base.
The Piece
Press the lever on its side and the screen clicks through a title card and Nara's girls and dogs of the period: an orange dress, a lit fuse, a sleeping face, a white dog, a child on a swing. The title card names the works, among them Nice to see you again, Hothouse Doll, Rain Rain Go Away, Pan Cake Kamikaze and Yellow in Blue.
The front carries YOSHITOMO NARA and TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY, the Tokyo gallery that championed him. The shell is a Telemag viewer, moulded by Pamer of Nuremberg, and its base bears a signature in blue marker with the date '97. It is described as an early version.
Details
- Artist: Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959, Hirosaki)
- Title: untitled, Tomio Koyama Gallery television viewer
- Year: dated '97 on the base
- Medium: plastic Telemag viewer with a reel of photographic images
- Maker of the viewer: Pamer, Nuremberg, Germany (moulded on the back)
- Signature: offered as hand-signed in blue marker
- Size: being confirmed against our archive records; please write to the Desk
- Documentation: none stated
Any measurement the Desk provides is taken by hand; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 cm (0.4 in).
Condition
- The shell is bright, with light residue along the seams of the back panel.
- Every image on the reel shows clearly through the lens.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade B (very good, light signs of age) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
The signature is described as the artist's own and offered on that basis. No certificate is stated. Keep it out of direct sun, which fades plastic and film.
Delivery from Japan
Wrapped and boxed 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.
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