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- Artists
- Murakami, Takashi
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2021 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Official | | Released: | 07/15/21 | | Run: | 100 | | Technique: | Giclee | | Paper: | Photo Rag 308 | | Size: | 23.6 X 23.6 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
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Absolut Art is thrilled to present an exclusive signed limited edition print by Takashi Murakami, the second of three exclusive prints in partnership with The Kitchen. Proceeds will benefit this beloved New York nonprofit space on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Since its inception in 1971, The Kitchen has supported artists in the production of new, boundary-pushing work across all artistic disciplines.
Murakami’s signed, limited edition print, “Thank You for the Wonderful Destiny,” 2020, featuring his signature smiling flowers, will be available exclusively through Absolut Art starting July 15.
About the Artwork
This is an edition print based on my tondo painting series with my signature subject, Flowers.
The original painting took about a year to make. The first step of the production process is to layout the flowers on the computer and select the colors with neurotic attention to details. Sometimes it only takes about a week to create a painting design in data, but once things get jammed in my head, it could take up to two to three years. For this work, this process took about a month.
The actual process of painting involves making the circular panel, stretching the canvas, and preparing the surface with base coats, upon which the colors of each individual flower petal are about prints is imprinted in me as well. From his modality, I learned to pay minute attention to the selection of paper stock, how the ink is applied, and the texture of the completed surface. And in 2001, on the occasion of my first museum exhibition in Japan, I started producing prints in earnest.
There is the original painting, then comes the small edition print, followed by signed posters in edition of around 300, and then a larger edition with just serial numbers, and finally there are posters in unlimited number. Popular works multiply in this way and get into the hands of many people, in turn raising the values of the originals.
One’s desire to possess is a mysterious thing: Some people really care about specific edition numbers and sometimes a particular edition of a print becomes very expensive in the secondary market. So it’s not necessarily the case of rarity equals value.
I am very passionately involved in artwork editions that can stimulate us in the context of something like a mind game. This edition was also produced with such enthusiasm.
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| Six Month Average | $3,655.89 |
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| Average Price | $3,655.89 |
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| Lowest Price | $3,408.42 |
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| Highest Price | $3,800.00 |
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| Original Price | $1,000.00 |
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| Collections | 1 |
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