Paintings of "Mobile Suit Gundam" skyrocketed at overseas auctions, awarded at 65 million yen

Contemporary artistsMr. Takashi Murakami's figures were bidding for $ 15.16 million (about 1.6 billion yen) in New York auctionWe talked with GIGAZINE before, but it seems that paintings based on Mobile Suit Gundam motif have been bidding for 4.8 million Hong Kong dollars (about 65 million yen) at overseas auctions.

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According to this article, in an auction on Asian contemporary art performed in Hong Kong, Japanese artistsTenmyo shoWork created by Mr. Gundam as a motif "RX-78-2 Tantaliser 2005 VersionIt is said that it was made a successful bid for HK $ 4.8 million (about 65 million yen). Thinking that the work by Chinese artist who was the highest bid price in the auction was bidding for about 100 million yen, it is quite popular.

This is"RX-78-2 Tantaliser 2005 Version"is. I use gilt abundantly and somehow the dragon is winding around Gundam. Is this an Asian taste? By the way the size is 200 cm × 200 cm.


This work is a work produced for the exhibition "GUNDAM for the future to come" held at the Suntory Museum from July 15th to August 31, 2005.