$9,998
H 32 in W 8 in D 1 in
MoMA Infinity Nets Triptych Art Skateboard Deck Set of 3
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Draper, UT
MoMA x Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets (set of 3), 2018 Screenprints in colors on skate decks 32 x 8 inches (81.3 x 20.3 cm) (each) Edition of 500 unnumbered unsigned Produced by the Mus...
Wood, Screen
$44,000
H 20.01 in W 25.6 in
Standing in the Visionary Field, 1979, Limited Edition by Yayoi Kusama signed
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
This vibrant screenprint, "Standing in the Visionary Field," by Yayoi Kusama, is a prime example of her early printmaking, featuring her signature "Dots Obsession" and "Infinity Nets...
Screen
$51,000
H 38.39 in W 31.23 in
Lemon Squash (1988). Screenprint Limited Edition of 50 by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 117)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Edition 18/50 Screenprint Signed, titled in Japanese, dated and numbered in pencil by the artist. [3 screens, 2 colors, 3 runs] 84.6 x 68 cm (image) 97.5 x 79.3cm (sheet) Edition o...
Screen
Red and Yellow Pumpkins (set of two)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Milano, MI
The avant-garde artist first rose to prominence in 1960s New York, where she staged provocative Happenings and exhibited hallucinatory paintings of loops and dots that she called “In...
Resin
$1,090
H 3.35 in W 5.71 in D 5.71 in
Naoshima Red Pumpkin. Resin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Resin
$41,000
H 10.63 in W 2.76 in D 6.7 in
High Heels Silver. Ceramic Sculptures (2) by Yayoi Kusama. Limited Edition of 30
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Ceramic
$37,000
H 7.88 in W 2.76 in D 9.45 in
Shoe. Bronze Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama. Limited Edition of 30 (1976/94)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Bronze
$23,000
H 3.15 in W 9.06 in D 9.06 in
Strawberry 1. Bronze Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama (1974/93) Limited Edition of 30
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Bronze
$63,000
H 9.45 in W 9.06 in D 7.88 in
Strawberry 2. Bronze Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama (1974/94) Limited Edition of 30
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Bronze
$21,000
H 25.4 in W 16.7 in
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Yayoi Kusama, 2012, signed and numbered
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
She seems to simultaneously emerge from and dissolve into a background of obsessive, web-like Infinity Nets, one of Kusama’s most celebrated motifs.
Screen
$1,316Sale Price|20% Off
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
'Pumpkin' Yellow/Black Pumpkin Pop Art Resin Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
$2,552Sale Price|20% Off
H 3.75 in W 5.5 in D 5.5 in
'Naoshima' Red Pumpkin Sculpture, Resin Pop Art, 2019, 3.75\" x 5.5\"
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
$1,916Sale Price|20% Off
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
Yayoi Kusama 'Pumpkin' Set of Two Pop Art Resin Sculptures, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
$1,316Sale Price|20% Off
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
'Pumpkin' White/Red Pumpkin Pop Art Resin Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
$3,500
H 31 in W 8 in D 0.4 in
Yayoi Kusama - With all My Flowering Heart, Skateboard Triptych 3 Skate Decks
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Wood, Screen
Love Forever
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Screen
$880
H 25.5 in W 25.5 in
Untitled Zwirner Gallery exhibition poster for Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Inkjet
$1,000
H 70 in W 60 in
Yayoi Kusama Art Production Fund Limited Edition Beach Towel (NEW in shrinkwrap)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Textile, Digital
$2,350
H 4.5 in W 4.5 in D 1 in
Love Forever Porcelain Bowl VIP Gold Edition Limited Edition for Ginza 6 opening
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Mixed Media, Screen
$188,900
H 3.25 in Dm 3.5 in
Yayoi Kusama -Original HAND SIGNED 7/30 Pumpkin (Red) Sculpture on base with box
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Ceramic, Resin, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Infinity Nets
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in San Diego, CA
Acrylic on Canvas
Unavailable
Infinity-Nets
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in San Diego, CA
Acrylic on canvas
Unavailable
Infinity-Nets (ZSSATT)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in San Diego, CA
51 1/4 x 51 1/4 inches
Acrylic, Canvas
Infinity Nets
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Los Angeles, CA
canvas size 18 x 15 inches framed size 24 x 21 inches
Acrylic, Canvas
Sold
H 17.13 in W 22.25 in
Infinity Nets, 1953-1984 Limited edition print by Yayoi Kusama signed
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)Infinity Nets, 1953–1984Medium: Lithograph in colors on Vélin d’Arches paperImage: 31 × 40.6 cm (12 1/4 × 16 in)Sheet: 43.5 × 56.5 cm (17 1/8 × 22 1/4 ...
Lithograph
Sold
H 20.28 in Dm 14.34 in
Infinity Nets (1986). Screenprint. Limited Edition 51/100 by Yayoi Kusama ABE 95
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets (1986). Edition 51/100 Screenprint [2 screens, 2 colors] 28 x 32 cm [11 ¹/₃₂ x 12 ¹⁹/₃₂ in] (image) 51.5 x 36.4 cm [20 ⁹/₃₂ x 14 ²¹/₆₄ in] (sheet) 56 x ...
Screen
Infinity Nets (B) (Abe Shuppan 204)?
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
Signed, titled and dated in pencil Edition of 50 (there were also 5 artist’s proofs)? Printed by Kihachi Kimura
Sold
H 20.28 in Dm 14.34 in
Infinity Nets (1986). Screenprint. Limited Edition 56/100 by Yayoi Kusama ABE 95
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets (1986). Edition 56/100 Screenprint [2 screens, 2 colors] Signed, titled, dated and numbered 61/100 in pencil by the artist 28 x 32 cm [11 ¹/₃₂ x 12 ¹⁹/₃₂ ...
Screen
Sold
H 20.28 in Dm 14.34 in
Infinity Nets (1986). Screenprint. Limited Edition 57/100 by Yayoi Kusama ABE 95
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets (1986). Edition 57/100 Screenprint [2 screens, 2 colors] Signed, titled, dated and numbered 57/100 in pencil by the artist 28 x 32 cm [11 ¹/₃₂ x 12 ¹⁹/₃₂ ...
Screen
Sold
H 5.63 in W 5.63 in D 6.5 in
Mirror Box Type B (2001) Limited Edition Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Metal
Sold
H 3.15 in W 9.06 in D 9.06 in
Strawberry 1. Bronze Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama (1974/93) Limited Edition of 30
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Bronze
Dots Accumulation
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
Note: Kusama produced the first Infinity Nets in the 1950s and 60s. She has described her Infinity Net paintings as visualisations of recurring hallucinations that plagued her since ...
Color
Infinity Nets
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
Note: Kusama produced the first Infinity Nets in the 1950s and 60s. She has described her Infinity Net paintings as visualisations of recurring hallucinations that plagued her since ...
Lithograph
Infinity Nets
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Edition of 500, Stamped signature on top
Wood, Maple
Sold
H 20.28 in Dm 14.34 in
Infinity Nets (1986). Screenprint. Limited Edition 61/100 by Yayoi Kusama ABE 95
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets (1986). Edition 61/100 Screenprint [2 screens, 2 colors] Signed, titled, dated and numbered 61/100 in pencil by the artist 28 x 32 cm [11 ¹/₃₂ x 12 ¹⁹/₃₂ ...
Screen
Sold
H 3.35 in W 5.71 in D 5.71 in
Naoshima Red Pumpkin. Resin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Resin
Sold
H 3.35 in W 5.71 in D 5.71 in
Naoshima Red Pumpkin. Resin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Resin
Sold
H 3.35 in W 5.71 in D 5.71 in
Naoshima Red Pumpkin. Resin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Resin
Sold
H 3.35 in W 5.71 in D 5.71 in
Naoshima Red Pumpkin. Resin Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Accumulations, self-obliteration, polka dots, infinity nets, love forever, pumpkins are some of the themes recurrently appearing in her monumental production
Resin
Sold
H 6 in W 10 in
Limited Edition leather clutch (bag) depicting the famed Infinity Mirrored Room
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Leather, Polyester, Mixed Media
Kusama Red and White Pumpkin (Yayoi Kusama pumpkin)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Living in relative obscurity over the following decades, it was not until she represented her country in the 1993 Venice Biennale that Kusama returned to the public eye. 2017 was an ...
Resin
Sold
H 3 in W 3.75 in D 3.27 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Pumpkin' White/Red, Collectable Resin Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
Yayoi Kusama 'Pumpkin' Set of Two Pop Art Resin Sculptures, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
'Pumpkin' Yellow/Black Pumpkin Pop Art Resin Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
Sold
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
'Pumpkin' White/Red Pumpkin Pop Art Resin Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
'Naoshima’ Resin Pop Art Pumpkin Sculpture, 2019
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
'Naoshima’ Resin Pop Art Pumpkin Sculpture, 2019
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Epoxy Resin, Acrylic
Sold
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Pumpkin' White/Red and Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
Yayoi Kusama 'Pumpkin' Set of Two Pop Art Resin Sculptures, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Pumpkin' White/Red and Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Pumpkin' White/Red and Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3.75 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in
Yayoi Kusama 'Pumpkin' Set of Two Pop Art Resin Sculptures, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 5.5 in W 3.5 in D 5.5 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Naoshima’ Red Pumpkin, Pop Art Resin Sculpture, 2019
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 5.5 in W 3.5 in D 5.5 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Naoshima’ Red Pumpkin, Pop Art Resin Sculpture, 2019
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3 in W 3.75 in D 3.27 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Pumpkin' Set of Two, White/Red and Yellow/Black, Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3 in W 3.75 in D 3.27 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Pumpkin' White/Red and Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3 in W 3.75 in D 3.27 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Pumpkin' Yellow/Black, Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 3 in W 3.75 in D 3.27 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Pumpkin' Set of Two, White/Red and Yellow/Black, Sculpture, 2016
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 5.5 in W 3.5 in D 5.5 in
Yayoi Kusama, 'Naoshima’ Red Pumpkin, Pop Art Resin Sculpture, 2019
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Soon after her arrival, she began a new body of work; black and white paintings, sculptures, films, and installations which became the acclaimed ‘Infinity Nets’ series, that translat...
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
Sold
H 31 in W 8 in D 0.4 in
With all My Flowering Heart Skateboard Triptych, 3 Limited Edition Skate Decks
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Wood, Mixed Media, Screen, Permanent Marker
Untitled Zwirner Gallery exhibition poster
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Lithograph, Offset
A Pumpkin BB-C (330, Kusama)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Subsequent solo shows of the artist’s work at David Zwirner, New York include Festival of Life, concurrently presented with Infinity Nets, in 2017; and EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE in 2...
Screen, Pencil
Infinity-Nets (Pink)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in San Francisco, CA
Acrylic, Canvas
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin (NGV)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Central, HK
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin, 2025 Hand painted zinc alloy metal pumpkin with perforated dots Stamped signature to underside Edition 87/250 30.5 x 30.5 in 12 x 12 cm
Metal
$46,070
H 19.69 in W 25.6 in
Chapeau II Screenprint on BFK Rives Paper, Signed, Edition 49/60
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours with lamé on BFK Rives paper Edition 49 of 60 Signed, numbered, titled and dated Pristine. Authenticated by the Kusama Studio Our mission is to connect art co...
Screen
$37,500
H 168.51 in W 31.5 in
Night Flowers (A), 2003, Screenprint by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 314)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Night Flowers (2003) Screenprint [23 screens, 24 colors, 24 runs] image 28 x 66.3 cm sheet 42.8 x 80 cm framed 51 x 89 x 5 cm ed. 120, AP 12, PP5 paper Kakita-shi print...
Screen
$32,000
H 25.6 in W 19.69 in
Tulipe (I), Screenprint (lamé) Limited Edition of 60 by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 290)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Tulipe (I), A.P. from the Edition of 60. Screenprint [8 screens, 8 colors, 11 runs]. Lamé [3 colors] Image: 45.5 x 38 cm. Sheet: 65x 50 cm. Provenance: Ravenel Art Auct...
Screen
$23,000
H 29.93 in W 22.05 in
Women, 2006, by Yayoi Kusama, limited edition print, signed, and numbered
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Women, Edition 6/120. Screenprint. Image: 76 x 60 cm. Sheet: 76 x 60 cm. Published in 2006 by Ishida Ryoichi. A print of the same edition is represented in plate 353, page 201 of the...
Screen
$25,000
H 13.98 in Dm 10.83 in
Flower (1982), Lithograph, Limited Edition of 100 by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 10)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama Flower, Edition 100/100. Lithograph [3 plates, 3 colors, 3 runs], Collage. Image: 22.3 x 15.5 cm. Sheet: 35.5 x 27.5 cm. Published in 1982 on on Velin d' Arches paper by...
Lithograph
Widely inspirational and innovative artist Yayoi Kusama has a body of work that is exceptionally varied, ranging from graphic prints and paintings to polka-dot pumpkin sculptures, hypnotic collages, large-scale installations and fashion design.
Even if you don’t know her name, you’ve likely experienced Kusama’s art — or have seen it on Instagram. Her soft sculptures and dazzling “Infinity Mirrors” are the stuff of selfie-takers’ dreams, but Kusama’s impressive decades-long career certainly holds far more cachet than it does fodder for today’s aspiring social-media influencers.
Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, Kusama has worked with her signature polka dots since the age of 10, when she began to experience vivid hallucinations and claimed that patterns and dots were moving around her, swallowing up everything in view. She started to incorporate them into her paintings as a child. Kusama saw circular forms and nets on every surface and became especially fascinated with the pebbles that lined the bottom of the creek near her childhood home. Her family was sternly opposed to her art and her mother physically abused Kusama and discouraged her at a very early age. She has suffered psychological turmoil her whole life and is vocal about her mental illness. Today, Kusama is a voluntary resident at a psychiatric facility in Tokyo, and she calls her work “art medicine.”
At the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, Kusama trained in Nihonga, a traditional style of Japanese painting that originated during the Meiji period. On advice she solicited from painter Georgia O'Keeffe, a pioneer of modernism in America whom she greatly admired, she subsequently moved to New York City in 1958. There, Kusama flourished, creating prescient sculptures and large-scale monochrome paintings that bridged current styles with minimalism, which hadn’t yet achieved any kind of prominence as an art movement. She pushed boundaries with her “Accumulations” series, which saw her transforming found furniture pieces into sexualized objects, as well as with an avant-garde staging of theatrical orgies on the street — both stemming from her anxieties about sex as well as an endeavor to make a feminist statement about patriarchal authority and sexism.
Kusama was captivated by Surrealists as well as the Abstract Expressionists and greatly influenced the Pop artists who followed, befriending such icons as Donald Judd — who called her work “the best paintings being done” — and Andy Warhol, with whom she exhibited and later accused of stealing her ideas. Kusama moved with ease through artistic circles and made a point to draw attention to her “otherness” as a Japanese woman by wearing kimonos to her openings.
In 2021, Kusama brought her floral and vegetal sculptures to the New York Botanical Garden and her works can be found in the collections of many of the world’s top museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. She famously collaborated with Louis Vuitton in 2012, and she created a 34-foot-tall balloon for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan in 2019, becoming the first female artist to design a work for the event. In addition to her visual artwork, Kusama is a writer, publishing poetry, novels and an autobiography.
Find a collection of Yayoi Kusama art on 1stDibs.
Once built for curbs and handrails, these boards now hang beside blue-chip works in major museums and collectors’ homes.
In Repetition GL.A, polka-dotted protuberances rise from a surface of rippling net. Here’s what makes the piece so rare.