ID 828497
Lot 386 | NOBUYOSHI ARAKI (B. 1940)
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
Tokyo Comedy
signed 'Nobuyoshi ARAKI' (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print
17 3/4 x 22 1/2in. (45 x 57cm.)
Executed in 1997
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner circa 2010.
Literature
Tokyo Comedy, exh. cat., Vienna, Wiener Secession, 1997 (another version illustrated, pp. 53-54).
N. Araki, Araki by Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection, Tokyo 2003 (another version illustrated, pp. 356-357).
Nobuyoshi Araki: Self, Life, Death, exh. cat., London, Barbican Art Gallery, 2005-2006 (another version exhibited and illustrated, p. 650).
Special notice
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| Artist: | Nobuyoshi Araki (1940) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | Nobuyoshi Araki (1940) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Address of auction |
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