Jellyfish Eyes
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 5
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Greenwich, CT
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 5 is an offset lithograph on paper, 19.75 x 19.75 inches, signed and
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Jellyfish eyes - Black 5
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Murakami, Takashi
Title: Jellyfish eyes - Black 5
Date: 2004
Medium: Offset lithograph
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JELLYFISH EYES - WHITE 1
By Takashi Murakami
Located in New York, NY
This offset lithograph depicts large colored graphic eyes.
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Materials
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JELLYFISH EYES - WHITE 3
By Takashi Murakami
Located in New York, NY
This offset lithograph depicts interconnecting colored circular eyes.
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Takashi Murakami “Jellyfish Eyes” Wallpaper
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Provenance: Vertu Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
Marking(s); notes: marking(s)
Country of origin; materials: Japan; paper
Dimensions: 39.5″h, 29.5″w; 44.5″...
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Takashi Murakami Jellyfish Eyes art toy (Takashi Murakami Luxor and Kurage-bo)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Takashi Murakami Luxor and Kurage-bo (from Jellyfish Eyes) 2014:
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Takashi MurakamiTakashi Murakami Jellyfish Eyes art toy (Takashi Murakami Luxor and Kurage-bo), 2014
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Jellyfish Eyes - White 1. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Jellyfish Eyes - White 1 by Takashi Murakami
Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist
19 ¹¹
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Materials
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Jellyfish Eyes - Black 3. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 3 by Takashi Murakami (2004)
Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist
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Jellyfish Eyes - Black 1. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 1 by Takashi Murakami (2004)
Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist
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Materials
Offset
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 5. Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami signed
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Jellyfish Eyes - Black 5 by Takashi Murakami
Offset print, numbered and signed by the artist
19 ¹¹
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Takashi Murakami Kanye West 2007 (Takashi Murakami Louis Vuitton)
By Takashi Murakami
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vuitton. Front side imagery features a reproduction of Murakami’s ‘Jellyfish Eyes-Black 5’ (2004
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Takashi Murakami Skateboard Decks (set of 3 works)
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Jellyfish Eyes For Sale on 1stDibs
There is a broad range of jellyfish eyes for sale on 1stDibs. There are many Pop Art and Contemporary versions of these works for sale. You can search the jellyfish eyes that we have for sale on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of black, white, beige and gray. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in offset print and lithograph — can elevate any room of your home.
How Much are Jellyfish Eyes?
Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — jellyfish eyes in our inventory begin at $2,750 and can go as high as $4,000, while the average can fetch as much as $3,600.
Takashi Murakami for sale on 1stDibs
Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami may be famous among collectors for the psychedelic flowers and chaotic cartoons that populate his prints and paintings, but artists likely know him as the theorist behind the contemporary art movement he calls “Superflat.”
Partially inspired by the Pop art of Andy Warhol, in which celebrity culture and mundane mass-produced items became the focus of bright and colorful works that both celebrated and criticized consumerism, Murakami’s Superflat encompasses painting, sculpture, digital design and more to present a subversive look at consumerism but is also an effort to blend fine art and lowbrow culture.
A multifaceted and remarkably influential artist as well as a compulsive art collector, Murakami has collaborated with brands such as Louis Vuitton, while one of his most famous Superflat works is the teddy bear on the cover of the Graduation album by American rapper Kanye West.
In 1993 Murakami earned his Ph.D. from Tokyo University of the Arts, where he was trained in nihonga, a style of painting that originated in the late 19th century by artists who worked to preserve and promote the conventions and processes associated with traditional Japanese art. While practicing nihonga, Murakami began to realize that his beliefs didn’t align with the tradition, so his art subsequently took on a satirical feel that embodied a critique of the movement. Before long, his style took a drastic turn, embracing otaku, a rising postwar cultural phenomenon among Japan’s younger crowd who loved anime and manga. (Otaku is also integral to Superflat.)
This is when Murakami’s most well-known character, Mr. DOB, was born. This anime-inspired icon, which Americans might interpret as a cross between Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat given its pronounced ears and broad and menacing grin, was part of the artist’s endeavor to elevate the otaku subculture but also to target mass consumerism. While Murakami conceived of Mr. DOB years ahead of his 2000-era Superflat theory, there is much common ground between the two. Not unlike his other creations, Murakami’s Mr. DOB is equal parts erotic, disturbing and cartoonish — an incisive mockery of the mingling of commerce and fine art so prevalent in Japanese popular culture.
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