Eden-Roc Pool, 1976 Size:48 x 72 in. The artwork demonstrates the artist's

The artwork demonstrates the artist's remarkable ability to blend cartoonish elements with more profound themes

Here the A is rendered in a buoyant cornflower blue and scattered across the sheet in a loose constellation — the same serif form repeated at shifting scales

This vividly graphic print is the second installment in a series of plant identification prints for Printed Matter by the artist and was published as a collaboration between Printed Matter Inc

a hallmark of Nara’s exploration of the human psyche

Eden-Roc Pool, 1976 Size:48 x 72 in. The artwork demonstrates the artist'sGuests round the swimming pool at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976. (Photo by Slim Aarons Hulton Archive Getty Images)