Yoshitomo Nara
Japanese | 1959
Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1959. His work is currently being shown at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Albertina Museum have featured Yoshitomo Nara's work in the past.Yoshitomo Nara's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 24,954,070 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 24,954,070 USD for KNIFE BEHIND BACK, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2019. Yoshitomo Nara has been featured in articles for Sydney Morning Herald, Barron's and Art Asia Pacific. The most recent article is In Sotheby’s Hong Kong Sales, a Story of Flips That Didn’t written for ARTnews in April 2024.
Artist's alternative names: Narra Yoshimoto
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Nothing Still About Still Lifes: Three Centuries of Floral Compositions
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood
Articles
Following a successful Art Basel Hong Kong, Sotheby’s unveiled a new format for its annual Hong Kong sales, combining modern and contemporary in a single evening sale, and pairing it with the Asia debut of its ultra-contemporary The Now sale.
Presiding over this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong, like the incarnation of the Easter Bunny, was a giant rabbit called Usacchi.
Artworks by Yayoi Kusama collectively sold for nearly US$81 million last year at the major global auction houses, making her the top-selling 21st-century contemporary artist, according to the Hiscox Artist Top 100 report.
