Yoshitomo Nara

Japanese | 1959

Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1959. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like BLUM, Los Angeles. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Guggenheim Bilbao have featured Yoshitomo Nara's work in the past.Yoshitomo Nara's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1 USD to 24,954,070 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 24,954,070 USD for KNIFE BEHIND BACK, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2019. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 1,091,104 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 134,300 USD.Yoshitomo Nara has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, The Guardian and Wallpaper . The most recent article is Blink-182 Cofounder Mark Hoppus to Sell $5 M. Banksy Painting at Sotheby’s in London written for ARTnews in February 2025.

Artist's alternative names: Narra Yoshimoto

Featured for Sale

Too Young To Die ,2002

By Yoshitomo Nara

Mark Moore Fine Art

WOW Project Beach Towel ,2010

By Yoshitomo Nara

Christie's New York

Offset lithograph printed in colours ,2020

By Yoshitomo Nara

Forum Auctions London

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At Auction

Notable Lots

Frog Girl 青蛙女孩 ,98

By Yoshitomo Nara

+60%

above mid-estimate

Berlin Barack, Room 1

By Yoshitomo Nara

Haze Days ,1998

By Yoshitomo Nara

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Upcoming Lots

Untitled ,1986

By Yoshitomo Nara

SBI Art Auction

The Little Thinker (No. YNF5386 - Yoshitomo Nara

The Little Thinker (No. YNF5386 ,2010

By Yoshitomo Nara

SBI Art Auction

Untitled (Who Snatched the Babies) - Yoshitomo Nara

Untitled (Who Snatched the Babies) ,2002

By Yoshitomo Nara

Christie's London

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Post-Auction Lots for Sale

Let's Talk About Glory, 2012 - Yoshitomo Nara

Let's Talk About Glory, 2012 ,2012

By Yoshitomo Nara

Lawsons

Offset lithograph printed in colours - Yoshitomo Nara

Offset lithograph printed in colours ,2020

By Yoshitomo Nara

Forum Auctions London

Tomorrow's Far Away ,2020

By Yoshitomo Nara

TGP Auction

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Recent Auction Results

Beh ,2003

By Yoshitomo Nara

-50%

below mid-estimate

Korea Premier Auction

Drumming Girl ,2013

By Yoshitomo Nara

-13%

below mid-estimate

Korea Premier Auction

Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, 2020; - Yoshitomo Nara

Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, 2020; ,2020

By Yoshitomo Nara

+74%

above mid-estimate

Rosebery´s Fine Art Auctioneers

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Current Exhibitions

Yoshitomo Nara: My Imperfect Self

BLUM, Los Angeles

Palms | Los Angeles | California | USA

Jan 18,2025 - Mar 22,2025

Yoshitomo Nara

Museum Frieder Burda

Baden-baden | Germany

Nov 23,2024 - Apr 27,2025

Breath(e): Towards Climate and Social Justice

Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University

Houston | Texas | USA

Jan 24,2025 - May 10,2025

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Articles

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Coverage

“ ..Best known for his images of large-eyed children, often melancholy, mischievous and/ or roguish, against an ostensibly uniform background, Nara’s representations are neither realistic nor entirely cartoonish... ”
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Johnen Galerie

“ ..One of the most renowned Japanese contemporary artists of his generation, Nara is best known for his paintings of children and animals sporting fiendish expressions and provocative stances, isolated against... ”
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The Dairy Center for the Arts

“ .. work and the sensibilities of youth subcultures worldwide, focusing on themes of alienation and rebellion, particularly in relation to rock and punk music, the inspiration and subject of many of Nara's... ”
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Asia Society and Museum, New York

“ ..Nara's work seamlessly fuses elements of western Modernism with references borrowed from popular culture... ”
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Stephen Friedman Gallery

“ ..Thirty-one years later, Nara's 2014 pilgrimage to Sakhalin, a remote island north of Japan where his farmer grandfather worked as a coal miner in the agricultural offseason, produced a deeply personal... ”
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Pace/MacGill Gallery