Very good condition.
Signed, titled, and dated on the upper left side of the verso.

Born in 1997, contemporary artist Iori Nagashima Iori is an up-and-coming young artist who has been showing her work around Japan since graduating from the oil painting department of Musashino Bijutsu University in 2020. She started painting after an encounter with impressionist paintings. Influenced by figurative painters such as Michael Boremans, he confronts the figurative painting traditions of the past and puts them into a contemporary context. His style is based on the subject of the ‘invisible’, and he draws from his memorised imagination in the form of figurative paintings. The strokes often used in the work, peculiar to oil painting and seem to lie somewhere between abstraction and painting, stir the viewer's emotions.

This work, Whisper, was painted in 2021. The work motif depicts a scene of Pop Art icon Andy Warhol and his factory girl Edie Sedgwick talking to each other. The blurred facial strokes are directed to draw the eye to the act of whispering rather than to the iconic symbolism of these motifs, where the associations of the story that Nagashima himself would have imagined and drawn emerge as a scene.