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NOBUYOSHI ARAKI (B. 1940)
Tokyo Comedy-Yakuza
signed 'Nobuyoshi Araki' (on the reverse)
Cibachrome print
image: 2218 x 3314in. (56.3 x 84.4cm.)
sheet: 2358 x 3478in. (60 x 88.5cm.)
Photographed in 1997 and printed in 2018
Provenance
Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the artist in 2018).
Literature
K. Rhomberg and H. Motoo (eds.), Tokyo Comedy: Nobuyoshi Araki, exh. cat., Kyoto 1997 (another version illustrated, unpaged).
N. Araki (ed.), Araki by Araki: The Photographer's Personal Selection, New York 2003 (another version illustrated, pp. 356-357).
Y. Isshiki, A. Miki and T. Sato (eds.), Self, Life, Death, exh cat., London 2005 (another version illustrated, p. 650).
G. Celant (ed.), Nobuyoshi Araki: Tokyomania, exh. cat., Paris 2006 (another version illustrated, pp. 23-24 and 52).
J. Sans, Araki, Cologne 2007 (another version illustrated, p. 251).
J. Neutres (ed.), Nobuyoshi Araki: Rétrospective, exh. cat., Paris 2016, p. 293 (another version illustrated, p. 86).
N. Araki, D. Sylvain and F. Sylvain, Nobuyoshi Araki. Leçon de photo intégrale, Tokyo 2018, p. 145, no. 214 (another version illustrated, p. 144).
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Sex, The Incomplete Araki: Sex, Life, and Death in the Works of Nobuyoshi Araki, 2018 (another version exhibited).
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