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  • Independently appraised and certified artist original by Matsuda Appraisals, a professional appraisal and auction company.

  • This work is in excellent, like new, condition.

  • We will beat the lowest price of an identical print that you find from a qualifying competitor (i.e. not a third-party seller or peer-to-peer marketplace). Note the print must be in the same condition. Please email us at contact@hypemuseum.jp if you would like us to adjust the price of your print before you purchase it. Please read our Pricing Policy for more info.

  • • We offer free 5-7 day global shipping if your order is above $4,000. Otherwise, shipping costs $150 USD.

    • We use FedEx / DHL / UPS’s Priority service

    • We prepay all customs duties and taxes

    • We will ship your order from wherever our works are being showcased in our partner galleries

  • We have a 7-day return policy, which means you have 7 days after receiving your item to request a return.

    To be eligible for a return, your item must have been damaged, defective, or the wrong item upon receiving it. Due to fraud prevention purposes, we do not accept returns or exchanges for any other reason or after 7 days upon receiving your order. Before your order has shipped, however, you may cancel your order to receive a full refund.

    To start a return, you can contact us at contact@hypemuseum.jp


Takashi Murakami

The Andy Warhol of Japan

Takeshi Murakami, known as the "Andy Warhol of Japan," creates his quirky, one-of-a-kind figures and artwork by drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese painting. Murakami blurs the barriers between high art and low culture, East and West, the past and present by using both conventional media, like as painting and sculpture, as well as commercial media, including fashion and animation.

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Skulls & Flowers Red

White Frame Included

Murakami concentrates on two of his most distinctive themes in Skulls & Flowers Red, the smiling flowers and the skulls, which first emerged in the 1990s. He paints an overlapping field of joyful faces crowned with a halo of floral petals, subdued by a converging red and pink. Several dialectically interconnected couples produce variable constellations: abstraction and embodiment, figure and pattern, rhythm and substance, form and matter, stylisation and naturalism. It's a hierarchical composition because it doesn't have a single set focal point. With a strong sense of rhythm, pattern upon pattern, and refined elegance, a limitless expansion of visual field seems to linger on the threshold of our sight.

Flowers & Skulls Red evokes the Edo period of indigenous Japanese creative interests and reflects a conscious reinvigoration of Japan's pre-modern cultural tradition. The bold use of solidly sketched outlines, essential forms, bold and consistent colors, and an experimental take on both composition and perspective, refers to Rinpa style paintings from the early seventeenth century, with a highly ornate and patterned manner. Rinpa is a distinct style of Japanese paintings, textiles, ceramics, and lacquerwares characterized by a bold, graphic ellipsis of natural motifs, the lavish use of expensive mineral and metallic pigments, and innovative brush technique experimentation, all with references to traditional court literature and poetry.

2013

Offset Lithograph.
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Edition of 300

69 X 53 CM

  • Independently appraised and certified artist original by Matsuda Appraisals, a professional appraisal and auction company.

  • This work is in excellent, like new, condition.

  • We will beat the lowest price of an identical print that you find from a qualifying competitor (i.e. not a third-party seller or peer-to-peer marketplace). Note the print must be in the same condition. Please email us at contact@hypemuseum.jp if you would like us to adjust the price of your print before you purchase it. Please read our Pricing Policy for more info.

  • • We offer free 5-7 day global shipping if your order is above $4,000. Otherwise, shipping costs $150 USD.

    • We use FedEx / DHL / UPS’s Priority service

    • We prepay all customs duties and taxes

    • We will ship your order from wherever our works are being showcased in our partner galleries

  • We have a 7-day return policy, which means you have 7 days after receiving your item to request a return.

    To be eligible for a return, your item must have been damaged, defective, or the wrong item upon receiving it. Due to fraud prevention purposes, we do not accept returns or exchanges for any other reason or after 7 days upon receiving your order. Before your order has shipped, however, you may cancel your order to receive a full refund.

    To start a return, you can contact us at contact@hypemuseum.jp


Takashi Murakami

The Andy Warhol of Japan

Takeshi Murakami, known as the "Andy Warhol of Japan," creates his quirky, one-of-a-kind figures and artwork by drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese painting. Murakami blurs the barriers between high art and low culture, East and West, the past and present by using both conventional media, like as painting and sculpture, as well as commercial media, including fashion and animation.

Takashi Murakami Sales Data Information

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  • 40%

    5 year average annual Growth Rate

  • $2,134.27

    Average Price Paid Per Print (12 Months)

  • 58

    Number of Sales (12 Months)