ID 949312
Lot 62 | TAKASHI MURAKAMI (B. 1962)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
I open wide my eyes but see no scenery. I fix my gaze upon my heart.
signed 'Takashi' (on the reverse of the center panel)
triptych—acrylic and platinum leaf on canvas mounted on panel
95 1/2 x 111 in. (242.6 x 282 cm.)
Executed in 2007.
Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Harry and Linda Macklowe, New York
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2009
Literature
C. Vogel, “The Warhol of Japan Pours Ritual Tea in a Zen Moment,” The New York Times, 7 May 2007, p.E1 (installation view illustrated).
R. Smith, "Art With Baggage in Tow," The New York Times, 4 April 2008, p. E27 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Takashi Murakami: Tranquility of the Heart, Torment of the Flesh – Open Wide the Eye of the Heart and Nothing is Invisible, May-June 2007.
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst; Guggenheim Bilbao, ©MURAKAMI, October 2007-May 2009, n.p.(illustrated).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Takashi Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics: A Collaboration with Nobuo Tsuji and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 2017-April 2018, n.p. (illustrated).
| Artist: | Takashi Murakami (1962) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Takashi Murakami (1962) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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