May 05, 2003 - Sale 1970

Sale 1970 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
[SLEEPING MURDERER.] 1965.
413/4x291/2 inches.
Condition B+: minor tears and creases in margins; minor abrasions in image. Silk-screen. Hand signed and inscribed in English and Japanese by the artist, in pencil. Paper.
A poster for the third volume of poetry by Matsuro Takahashi, a poet with shocking talent who strongly influenced the young Yokoo. The little character represented twenty four times from the back is a reference to the book's cover, in which the same figure is seen, from the front, with a crazy look in his eyes and a very disturbing smile... Yokoo p. 81 no. 325.