Lot 088 · Modern Art — 21 November 2025
Yoshitomo Nara — Miss Spring – poster / print
Sold for 31,500 HKD
- Model
- Yoshitomo Nara — Miss Spring – poster / print
- Category
- Art & Antiques
Specifications
- Technique
- Offset poster / colour print
- Dimensions
- 75 × 65 cm
- Presentation
- Presented new, rolled and housed in a protective art-storage tube suitable for works on paper.
Description
Yoshitomo Nara — Miss Spring – poster / print
Artwork Details
About the Work
YOSHITOMO NARA — MISS SPRING – POSTER / PRINT
A young girl with a rounded face and red-brown hair looks directly outward from a flat yellow-green field. Her narrow eyes and faint, unreadable expression create the psychological ambiguity characteristic of Nara’s child portraits. The composition is deliberately spare: there is no surrounding narrative, only the head and shoulders isolated against colour. That reduction gives small shifts in gaze and mouth disproportionate emotional weight. The work demonstrates Nara’s ability to combine the apparent simplicity of illustration with a more complex atmosphere of independence, boredom or quiet defiance, making the image immediately accessible while resisting a fixed emotional interpretation.
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