Yoshitomo Nara (1959) - Apple Box Print

Yoshitomo Nara - Apple Box Print Set

Series of prints on apple boxes featuring the following works:

Love From The Sea
Broken Heart Bench
Rock'n'Roll Music
The Long and Winding Road
Tribute to Bloodthirsty Butchers
1, 2, 3, 4 !

Rare prints for sale.

Size of each print
10 x 14.8 x 0.7 cm

Yoshitomo Nara’s deceptively simple paintings, sculptures, and drawings draw inspiration from the pop culture aesthetics of manga, Walt Disney cartoons, and punk rock. The artist populates his work with childlike characters who are alternately adorable and sinister, running wild against flat backgrounds rendered with simple, bold lines and solid colors. Nara explores imagination and the individual, and his more complex canvases consider the intersection of figure and ground. Nara earned his MFA from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music and has exhibited in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. His works are part of the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Rubell Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, the Long Museum, and many others. Nara’s paintings have sold for seven figures on the secondary market.

Original photos of the works for sale

Will be carefully packaged for shipping.

Yoshitomo Nara is a major figure in contemporary Japanese art, recognized for his childlike characters with ambivalent expressions, blending innocence and rebellion. His visual world, influenced by pop culture and punk, is in dialogue with that of artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, and Takeru Amano. On the international stage, his work resonates with Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and KAWS. He also shares affinities with Banksy, Invader, and D*Face, while influencing the world of collectible objects such as Bearbrick and Richard Orlinski.