Yoshitomo Nara

Japanese, born 1959

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The stylized face of a light-skinned person with gold-colored eyes looks out at us against a chestnut-brown background in this vertical painting. The person’s honey-brown bangs are short on the high forehead, and hair falls to the shoulders. The person’s face is wide with notably wide-set eyes and cursory dots and a straight line for the nose and mouth. The chin is also wide. The shirt is painted as a block of rose pink. The work is painted with blended strokes giving it a soft look.
Yoshitomo Nara, Midnight Truth, 2017, acrylic on canvas, Gift of Lisa and Steven Tananbaum, 2019.100.1

Midnight Truth

Yoshitomo Nara · 2017 · acrylic on canvas ·  Accession ID  2019.100.1