Hara-Kiri, Hommage à Mishima / L’Étouffement
Hara-Kiri, Homage to Mishima / The Suffocation
- Date
- 1983
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 200 × 300 cm
- Period
- Ice blue, 1980 — 1985
- Reference
- cat. 22
Addressed to Yukio Mishima, whose ritual suicide in 1970 supplies the subject.
The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.
Ice blue · 1980 — 1985
Crucifiction (1980–81) gives the period its emblem, misspelling and all — the misspelling is the painter’s own, and lends the subject a science-fiction overtone he did not disown.
Also from this period