TAKASHI MURAKAMI (b. 1962, Tokyo),

'A Panda Cub Hugging a Ball of Flowers', 2020

SIGNED Limited Edition Print

Silkscreen print in colors on Saunders Waterford 410gm High White Paper. Limited edition of 100 (plus proofs). SIGNED, dated '2020' and numbered 'SP 3/25' by artist in pencil on recto (lr). This work is number 3 of 25 special proofs aside from the edition of 100 printed and published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Dimensions: 19.7" x 19.7" (50 x 50 cm) sheet, 16" x 14.7" (40.6 x 37.3 cm) image. © 2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. BRAND NEW never framed or displayed (shown are a few framed examples).

PROVENANCE: Perrotin Gallery, New York, NY.

'A Panda Cub Hugging a Ball of Flowers' combines scenes and imagery that recur throughout Takashi Murakami’s oeuvre. The grinning, sharp-clawed Panda cub hugging a ball of rainbow flowers, perhaps Murakami's single most recognizable motif.

'Takashi Murakami: Understanding the New Cognitive Domain' is on view at Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris, France, 6/10/2023 - 12/22/2023.

In addition, 'Takashi Murakami: Unfamiliar People — Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego' is on view at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, 9/15/2023 - 2/12/2024.

Takashi Murakami was born in 1962 in Tokyo, where he lives and works. Collections include 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Recent institutional exhibitions include Murakami Versailles, Château de Versailles, France (2010); Murakami: The 500 Arhats, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2015); Murakami by Murakami, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2017); The Deep End of the Universe, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Under the Radiation Falls, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2017); The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2017, traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, in 2018).

Murakami is the founder of Kaikai Kiki Co. Ltd., an art production and art management corporation, which both produces his work and functions as a supportive environment for emerging artists.

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