Yoshitomo Nara Untitled Coloured Pencil on Envelope, Described as an Original Drawing, Gallery Label, Framed
Yoshitomo Nara Untitled Coloured Pencil on Envelope, Described as an Original Drawing, Gallery Label, Framed
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A Girl Across the Morning Post
Nara has long drawn on whatever paper was at hand, and here a cinema mailing becomes the ground. The pointing girl keeps his familiar mix of sweetness and warning. The printed type beneath her fixes the drawing to a particular season.
Best for: Collectors of Nara works on paper who value a gallery label and an intimate scale
Condition notes
Described as close to unused, work and frame in good order. No stains or tears visible in the photographs.
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A small girl in a red dress points off to the left, drawn in coloured pencil across a printed envelope: an Untitled work on paper described as an original drawing by Yoshitomo Nara.
The Piece
The figure has the wide brow, sidelong eyes and thin smile of his early 2000s children: blonde hair in short yellow strokes, the dress in dense red, a soft blue shadow rubbed in behind. She stands over the printed text of a cinema mailing for the film Être et avoir.
A Tomio Koyama Gallery label on the reverse of the frame, shown in the photographs, gives the artist, the medium as colour pencil on envelope, the size and an inventory reference. The label is dated 2002, while the description gives 2003; both are recorded here as stated.
The sheet floats on white inside a deep, glazed box frame of pale wood.
Details
- Artist: Yoshitomo Nara
- Title: Untitled
- Year: 2002 on the gallery label; 2003 in the description
- Medium: Coloured pencil on printed envelope
- Status: Described as an original drawing, unique
- Sheet: About 11.4 x 16.2 cm (4.5 x 6.4 in)
- Frame: Pale wood box frame, glazed; outer size being confirmed against our archive records
- Documentation: Tomio Koyama Gallery label on the reverse, as photographed
Sheet size from the gallery label; allow a margin of about 0.5 cm (0.2 in).
Condition
- Described as close to unused, with work and frame both in good order.
- No stains, tears or foxing are visible in the photographs.
Condition grade A (excellent, very light signs of age) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Authorship, date and medium are given as the description and gallery label state them; the Desk has not examined the work out of its frame. Coloured pencil is light-sensitive: hang away from direct sun and damp.
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