Yoshitomo Nara's Q & A (1995) changed hands at Christie's in Hong Kong on September 30 for $2.2 million (HK$17.28 million), clearing its low estimate and delivering its owner an annualized return of about 10 percent. The 67.9-by-54.6-centimetre acrylic on canvas has now been traded nine times at auction, and each appearance seems to confirm the same trajectory: upward. The sale improved on the painting's previous auction result by $1.12 million. It last appeared in a saleroom on May 26, 2019, when it made $1.09 million at Christie's — also in Hong Kong — meaning the price has more than doubled in seven years, a 103 percent gain. The longer record reads like a textbook study in market appreciation. The work sold for $35,000 at Sotheby's New York in November 2002, then for $220,000 at Christie's London in July 2009 — a 528 percent increase — before the 2019 and 2026 Hong Kong sales carried it past the two-million mark. For a work dated 1995, squarely in the decade that cemented Nara's international reputation, the result underscores how steadily demand for his signature imagery has compounded. A double in seven years, measured at a 10 percent annualized return, places the painting among the more reliable performers in the contemporary segment — and keeps Hong Kong's salerooms at the centre of the trade for his work. It also fits a wider pattern: both of the painting's two most recent sales, in 2019 and 2026, took place in Hong Kong, where demand for Nara's signature imagery has compounded most visibly. The result was reported on September 30, the same day as the sale.