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 collects ion, 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