Yoshitomo Nara Painting Fetches a Whopping $25 Million USD at Sotheby's Hong Kong

A large-scale painting by acclaimed Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara hammered down a most impressive sale price of $25 million USD at Sotheby's contemporary art auction in Hong Kong this past weekend. The sale marks the most expensive piece ever sold by the artist at auction. The muted-toned work titled 'Knife Behind Back' (2000) measures roughly seven by seven feet wide and portrays Nara's signature, angry-eyed female subject clad in a red collard dress. It's considered to be one of the artist's ...