Contemporary Art Evening Auction

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Lot 45
  • 45

Takashi Murakami

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
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Description

  • Takashi Murakami
  • Troll's Umbrella
  • soft steel, epoxy with fibreglass, paint and sand
  • 235 by 140.2 by 140.2cm.
  • 92 1/2 by 55 1/8 by 55 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 2002, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

Private Collection, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Takashi Murakami: KaiKai Kiki, 2002, p. 27

Catalogue Note

"I thought that, by uniting the eroticism and the magic side of mushrooms, I could use them as a motif in my work."  the artist cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Takashi Murakami: Kaikai Kiki, 2002, p. 79