Takashi Murakami: Davy Jones’ Tear
Artwork © 2009 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
Davy Jones’ Tear, a limited-edition screen print by Takashi Murakami, belongs to a set of three prints derived from a scene in Gore Verbinski’s 2006 adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest in which octopean villain Davy Jones plays an organ with his tentacles. Abstracting comprehensively from this already curious incident, Murakami pictures an amoebic figure-eight shape atop a ground of colorful Benday dots and expressive drips and spills. Investing a cinematic allusion with references to the histories of modern painting and graphic design, the artist presents a sophisticated combination of popular culture and high art.
Artist: Takashi Murakami
Date: 2009
Medium: Screen print on paper
Dimensions: 37 3/4 × 30 3/8 inches (95.9 × 77.2 cm)
Edition: Edition 13/30 + 5 AP
Signed: Signed, numbered, and dated on recto
Printer: Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Publisher: Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Framed: Sold unframed
