Yoko Ono
touch me
Lot closes
June 7, 03:34:00 AM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Current Bid
15,000 USD
1 Bid
Reserve met
Lot Details
Description
Yoko Ono
b. 1933
touch me
Executed in 2008.
Primed canvas
Edition 8 of 21
12 x 12 x 1 in. (30.5 × 30.5 × 2.5 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York
Yoko Ono (b. 1933, Tokyo, Japan; lives in Franklin, NY) is an acclaimed artist known for her work in performance, participatory art, sound, film, music, and public art, as well as for her extensive activism for peace. When it debuted in 2008, touch me encouraged people to insert their body parts into the cut-out canvas—allowing them to draw meaning from the interaction even as they became party to others’ experiences of the work. Ono’s work is held in the MCA Collection, and she is the subject of a major 2025 retrospective at the MCA traveling from the Tate Modern, London. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, among others, and her numerous awards include a 1982 Grammy for Album of the Year for Double Fantasy (with John Lennon and Jack Douglas) and a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2009 Venice Biennale.