Surrealistic Paintings By Tetsuya Ishida

Tetsuya Ishida painted scenes of ordinary Japanese life, but with the protagonist (a self portrait) always trapped in a machine-like body, or treated as part of a production line.
On November 26, 2006, one of Ishida's paintings, "Untitled" 2001, sold at a Christie's Hong Kong "Asian Contemporary Art" auction for 780,000HKD (over USD$100,000). The Christie's pre-auction estimate on the sale price of the painting was only 60,000-80,000HKD.