Nobuyoshi Araki – Tokyo Comedy

Tokyo Comedy, 1997

• Artist: Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese, born 1940)
• Medium: Gelatin silver print mounted on acrylic
• Dimensions: 100.6 × 123.5 cm
• Signature: Signed on the reverse
• Certificate: Certificate of Authenticity
• Date: 1997 

Tokyo Comedy is a gelatin silver print mounted on acrylic, executed in 1997 by Nobuyoshi Araki — one of the most celebrated, prolific, and internationally recognized photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries — signed on the reverse and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

Nobuyoshi Araki occupies a position of absolute singularity in the history of photography. Born in Tokyo in 1940, Araki has produced across six decades a body of work of extraordinary range, technical mastery, and cultural provocation — a practice that has simultaneously placed him at the center of debates about art, censorship, desire, mortality, and the nature of the photographic image, and secured his status as one of the most important and influential photographers alive. His engagement with Tokyo — the city of his birth, his life, and his obsession — runs as a constant and defining thread through his entire output, giving his work a quality of total immersion in a single urban environment that has never been surpassed in the history of photography.

Tokyo Comedy belongs to Araki's sustained and deeply personal engagement with the city of Tokyo — a body of work that documents, transforms, and mythologizes its streets, interiors, and inhabitants with a visual intensity and emotional directness that is entirely his own. The title's ironic register — Comedy, a word that in the Japanese context carries associations of lightness, theatricality, and the performance of everyday life — frames the work within Araki's characteristic mode of simultaneously celebrating and questioning the surface of the world he photographs. The gelatin silver print mounted on acrylic gives the work a surface of exceptional luminosity, depth, and material permanence, the acrylic mounting amplifying the tonal richness and visual impact of the silver gelatin process while providing a long-term archival stability entirely appropriate to a work of this scale and significance.

The work is in excellent condition.

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FAQ

Is this an original work by Nobuyoshi Araki?
Yes — an authentic gelatin silver print mounted on acrylic, signed on the reverse and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity, executed in 1997.

What medium was used?
Gelatin silver print mounted on acrylic — a premium presentation format that amplifies the tonal richness and visual impact of the silver gelatin process while providing exceptional archival stability and surface luminosity.

What are the dimensions?
100.6 × 123.5 cm — a large format of commanding visual presence.

Is the work signed?
Yes — signed on the reverse.

Does the work come with documentation?
Yes — accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

Is the work framed?
No. Presented unframed.

What is the condition?
Excellent condition. Full condition report available upon request.

Is this artwork a good investment?
Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the most consistently collected and internationally recognized photographers of his generation. Large-format gelatin silver prints mounted on acrylic, signed and accompanied by certificates of authenticity, represent compelling acquisitions for serious collectors of contemporary photography.

Is worldwide shipping available?
Yes — secure worldwide shipping from France with professional packaging, tracking, and insurance.