Sold Lots Featuring Paintings By Yoshitomo Nara & Mr. Doodle

Sold Lots Featuring Paintings By Yoshitomo Nara & Mr. Doodle

ByLeonard

These two painting exceeded their auction estimates. Cat By Yoshitomo Nara Yoshitomo Nara is a Japanese pop-art artist who is most famous for his portraits of a cartoonish looking young girl with mean eyes. In 2019, Nara’s installation art Not Everything but/ Green House (2009) sold for US$5.12m and his Knife Behind Back (2000), a large-scale painting by…

Some Vintage Ceramic Cats & Two Paintings That Are Up For Auction On Sotheby’s

Some Vintage Ceramic Cats & Two Paintings That Are Up For Auction On Sotheby’s

ByLeonard

Émile Gallé ceramic cats from the Jacques et Claude Rohault de Fleury collection Émile Gallé (1846-1904) was a French artist who primarily worked in glass, and is considered a big deal as one of the original innovators in the Art Nouveau movement. His early ceramics were generally plates and vases with more traditional floral designs and though they…