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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

Not on View

Medium

acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 227.3 × 181.8 cm (89 1/2 × 71 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lisa and Steven Tananbaum

Accession Number

2019.100.1

Artists / Makers

Yoshitomo Nara (painter) Japanese, born 1959

Image Use

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Provenance

The artist; (Pace Gallery, New York); purchased 2017 by Lisa and Steven Tananbaum, Palm Beach; gift 2019 to NGA.

Associated Names

Tananbaum, Steven

Exhibition History

2017: Yoshitomo Nara: For Better or Worse: Works: 1987-2017, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2017.

2020: Yoshitomo Nara, Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2020 - 2022, unnumbered catalogue, repro.