Yoshitomo Nara, 'Marching on a Butterbur Leaf'
Yoshitomo Nara
Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, 2020
Offset lithograph, unframed, signed
24 x 18 inches
$2,000 USD
Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959, Aomori, Japan) is one of the most influential contemporary artists of his generation, known for his disarming portraits of wide-eyed figures that balance childlike innocence with emotional complexity. Drawing on his deep connection to music, literature, and memory, Nara’s work blends autobiographical impulse with universal themes of loneliness, rebellion, and longing.
Since the 1990s, Nara has exhibited extensively throughout Japan, the United States, and Europe, with major retrospectives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021), Asia Society (2010), and the Yokohama Museum of Art (2012). His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), LACMA, and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art.
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Yoshitomo Nara
Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, 2020
Offset lithograph, unframed, signed
24 x 18 inches
$2,000 USD
Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959, Aomori, Japan) is one of the most influential contemporary artists of his generation, known for his disarming portraits of wide-eyed figures that balance childlike innocence with emotional complexity. Drawing on his deep connection to music, literature, and memory, Nara’s work blends autobiographical impulse with universal themes of loneliness, rebellion, and longing.
Since the 1990s, Nara has exhibited extensively throughout Japan, the United States, and Europe, with major retrospectives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021), Asia Society (2010), and the Yokohama Museum of Art (2012). His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), LACMA, and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art.
Your purchase supports Dallas Contemporary’s mission to present the leading edge of contemporary art through exhibitions, performances, and public programs. To inquire about this work, please contact shop@dallascontemporary.org.
Yoshitomo Nara
Marching on a Butterbur Leaf, 2020
Offset lithograph, unframed, signed
24 x 18 inches
$2,000 USD
Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959, Aomori, Japan) is one of the most influential contemporary artists of his generation, known for his disarming portraits of wide-eyed figures that balance childlike innocence with emotional complexity. Drawing on his deep connection to music, literature, and memory, Nara’s work blends autobiographical impulse with universal themes of loneliness, rebellion, and longing.
Since the 1990s, Nara has exhibited extensively throughout Japan, the United States, and Europe, with major retrospectives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2021), Asia Society (2010), and the Yokohama Museum of Art (2012). His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), LACMA, and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art.
Your purchase supports Dallas Contemporary’s mission to present the leading edge of contemporary art through exhibitions, performances, and public programs. To inquire about this work, please contact shop@dallascontemporary.org.
Yoshitomo Nara’s I Forgot Their Names and Often Can’t Remember Their Faces but Remember Their Voices Well, exhibited at Dallas Contemporary (Spring–Summer 2021), surveyed fifteen years of the artist’s practice through paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Known for his disarmingly childlike figures, Nara explored emotional states of rebellion, isolation, and tenderness, drawing from personal memory, music, and post-Fukushima trauma. The exhibition foregrounded the tension between innocence and defiance, pairing polished canvases with rough-hewn materials like cardboard and wood. Through these contrasts, Nara reflected on memory, identity, and the quiet resilience of the individual in a fractured world.
