Photo © Rago Auctions — view this lot on Rago Auctions ↗Shino, 2002
Print (other)
Rago Auctions · May 5, 2026$4,480 ≈ £3,310 ≈ €3,834Sign up free to see price
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Tokyo Comedy
Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese, b. 1940) · 1997
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- Medium
- Photograph · Photography all photograph results →As published: “Gelatin silver print, printed later and flush-mounted”
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount
- Category
- Photographs
- Dimensions
- Image: 100 x 123.5 cm (39 3/8 x 48 5/8 in.) Frame: 112.5 x 135.5 cm (44 1/4 x 53 3/8 in.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Photographs (UK040219)
- Date
- October 25, 2019
- Location
- London
- Lot
- 20
- Estimate
- £40,000 – £60,000 (≈ $51,304 – $76,956) (≈ €46,191 – €69,286)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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