On Kawara. Thanatophanies

Lot 143
02.10.2024 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 143 | On Kawara. Thanatophanies
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KAWARA, ON
1932 Kariya/Japan - 2014 New York

Title: Thanatophanies.
Subtitle: Portfolio with 30 prints and title page.
Date: 1995.
Technique: Each: offset on strong vellum.
Depiction Size: 25 x 19cm.
Sheet Size: 40 x 29,5cm (portfolio: 45 x 34 x 3cm.
Publisher: On Kawara und Parco Co., LTD. (publisher).


From the edition of 180 copies.

Provenance:
- Kasper König Collection, Berlin (directly from the artist)

- The Greek title Thanatophanies translates as Apparitions of Death
- This portfolio of faces recalls the horrors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War
- Mutilated and deformed heads reflect the atrocities of the time.
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