Phillips is pleased to announce a seminal work by Yoshitomo Nara as a major highlight of the recently announced Hong Kong-Beijing dual-location 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in collaboration with Poly Auction. Executed in the watershed year of 2000, as Nara finally returned to Japan following twelve years of artistic apprenticeship in Germany, Missing in Action is among the rarest works on canvas by the artist to come to auction. Created the same year as Nara's auction record work, which crowned him the position of the most expensive Japanese contemporary artist, it was also in 2000 that Nara was honoured with his first museum solo exhibitions in America, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Santa Monica Museum of Art.