![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Untitled, 2003 (lot 199), encapsulates Nara’s response to painting in its art historical context. Drawing holds an important place in Nara’s practice dissatisfied with the teaching techniques at his art school in Japan, where he produced paintings that adhered to his teachers’ tastes, he found his own distinctive style by drawing in sketchbooks, notebooks and on scraps of wrapping paper. Educated in Japan and Germany, Nara is known for his depictions of cartoon-like children and animals, characters that often bear malevolent faces with recurring themes that range from violence, music and death, amongst others. Drawn on the back of envelopes and from a page of the artist’s calendar, the following three lots (198-200) by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara are beautiful examples of his playful yet evocative style. ![]()
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