Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Numbered And Signed
Yayoi Kusama, Pumpkin 2000 (Green)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours, on Colorplan paper with full margins
Edition of 100
Signed, numbered, dated
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Screen
Original HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED 7/30 Pumpkin (Red) Sculpture on base with box
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama
Original Limited Edition hand signed and numbered Pumpkin (Red), 1998
Painted cast
Category
1990s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Resin, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Pumpkin (G)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition of 150
28 x 37.3 cm (11 x 14.7 in)
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin (White T)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition 102 of 120
83.5 × 70.5 cm (32.9 x 27.8 in)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
Category
20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Recent Sales
Pumpkin MT
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Authenticated by Kusama Studio, Tokyo and accompanied by
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Pumpkin (2)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
1990
Screenprint in colors, on Izumi paper
Sheet: 63 x 53 cm
Edition of 150
Signed, titled, dated
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Pumpkin 2000 (Green)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2000
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 18 1/4 x 24 in.
Edition of 100
Signed, titled
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Louis Vuitton Limited Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Dots Zippy 24lz1129 Red
By Louis Vuitton
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Date Code/Serial Number: MI2102
Made In: France
Measurements: Length: 7.75" Width: 1" Height: 4.2
Category
20th Century French Pouches and Wristlets
Yayoi Kusama 'Pumpkin (2002)' 2005- Offset Lithograph
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
)
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Additional Details: Limited edition
Category
Early 2000s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Yayoi Kusama "Pumpkin 2000 (Red)" Screenprint
Located in Astoria, NY
Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, b. 1929), "Pumpkin 2000 (Red)", Screenprint in Black and Red on Wove Paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Mirror Box Type B (2001) Limited Edition Sculpture by Yayoi Kusama
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Screenprinted box with mirror, plexi, metal balls and lenses,
signed in silver ink and numbered 21
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
H 5.63 in W 5.63 in D 6.5 in
Pumpkin BSQ
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1998, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 120, printed on
Category
1980s Prints and Multiples
Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Lithograph
AP of 3 aside from main edition of 100
27 x 33.5 cm (10.6 x 13.2 in)
Signed, titled
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pumpkin (R)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
14.8 in)
(Frame 40 x 46 x 3.5 cm / 15.8 x 18.1 x 1.4 in)
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the
Category
20th Century Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin (White T)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1992, on Arches, signed, titled and dated in Japanese, and numbered from
Category
1990s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin 2000 (Yellow)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours on wove paper
Edition of 200
48 x 63.5 cm (18.9 x 25 in)
Signed, numbered
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin 2000 (Yellow)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours on wove paper
Edition of 200
(53 x 68.8 cm, 21.1 x 27.1 in)
Signed, numbered
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Yayoi Kusama "Pumpkin" 1991; Silkscreen; 11 x 23 1/2 inches; Edition of 250
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Yayoi Kusama
"Pumpkin"
1991
Silkscreen
11 x 23 1/2 inches
Edition of 250, signed and numbered
Known
Category
1990s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
A Pumpkin BB-C (330, Kusama)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
)
Yayoi Kusama
A Pumpkin BB-C (330, Kusama), 2004
Silkscreen in colors on Arches wove paper
Hand-signed by
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen, Pencil
Pumpkin 2000
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in London, GB
screenprint in colour, 2000, signed, titled and dated in pencil, numbered from the edition of 200
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Not signed or numbered
New. Sold in the original box
Benesse Museum, Japan
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum, Japan
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Red and White)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum, Japan
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Red and White)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Red and White)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Yellow and Black)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Benesse Museum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Red and White)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Sold in the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Red and White)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Sold in the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Red and White)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Sold in the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Red and White)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Sold in the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin (Red and White)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Cast resin
Open edition
Stamped on base (not signed or numbered)
New, as issued
Sold in the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Pumpkin and Fruits
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, dated and numbered '35/160' in pencil, lower margin
Framed, pristine condition
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Tokyo, 13
LOT:20230708N01
Yayoi Kusama [Pumpkin]
Medium: Lithograph, collage
Signed by the artist, titled
Category
1980s Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pumpkin (GT)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Tokyo, 13
LOT:20200704M21
Yayoi Kusama [Pumpkin (GT)]
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil
Edition 70
Category
1990s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint and collage
Sheet: 10 3/5 x 8 3/10 in.
Edition of 135
Signed, titled, dated and
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2000
Screenprint and collage
Sheet: 10 3/5 x 8 3/10 inches
Edition of 135
Signed, titled, dated and
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2000
Screenprint in colors & collage
12 3/5 x 20 3/10 in. (32 x 51.5 cm)
Edition of 135
Signed
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled (in Japanese), dated and numbered in pencil
Framed
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Fabric, Screen
A Pumpkin (BY)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Tokyo, 13
LOT:20230901S01
Yayoi Kusama [A Pumpkin (BY)]
Screenprint, lamé
Artist signed, titled, dated 2004
Category
Early 2000s Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin (GT)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in colors
Sheet: 29 4/5 x 22 4/5 in.
Edition of 120
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
Category
1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Napping Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in colors
Sheet: 24 2/5 x 29 4/5 in.
Edition of 120
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
Category
1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin (G)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
1992
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 28 x 37.3 cm
Edition of 150
Signed, titled, dated
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Pumpkin B
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2000
Screenprint in colors, on mirror film
S. 27 x 21 cm
Edition of 100
Signed, titled, dated and
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Film, Screen
Three Pumpkins
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
1/8 x 17 in. (33.5 x 43 cm)
Edition of 160
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil, lower
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Pumpkin (YT)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
1996
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 12 3/5 x 10 3/5 in.
Edition of 120
Signed, titled
Category
1990s Minimalist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
A Pumpkin (RT)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint with lame
Sheet: 17 1/2 x 15 1/5 in.
Edition of 120
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
A Pumpkin (RT)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2004
Screenprint in colors with lame, the full sheet
Sheet: 17 7/8 x 15 in.
Edition of 120
Signed
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Pumpkin 2000 (Red)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
.
Edition of 100
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
A Pumpkin (RT)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2004
Screenprint in colors with lame, on wove paper
Sheet: 17 7/8 x 15 in.
Edition of 120
Signed
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Red Colored Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
1994
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
S. 21 5/8 x 25 in.
Edition of 98
Signed, titled, dated
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Yellow Colored Pumpkin
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
.
Edition of 98
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Framed, pristine condition
Category
1990s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
A Pumpkin (T)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2003
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 17 9/10 x 15 in.
Edition of 150
Signed, titled
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Still-life Prints
Materials
Screen
A Pumpkin (T)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
150
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Framed
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
A Pumpkin BB-C
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
2004
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper
13 x 15 1/3 in. (33 x 39 cm)
Edition of 80
Signed, titled
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
La bleue (Pumpkin BB-C)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint in colors
Sheet: 9 2/5 x 11 1/5 in.
Edition of 80
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
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Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Numbered And Signed For Sale on 1stDibs
Find the exact yayoi kusama pumpkin numbered and signed you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. You can easily find an example made in the Pop Art style, while we also have 5 Pop Art versions to choose from as well. If you’re looking for a yayoi kusama pumpkin numbered and signed from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a yayoi kusama pumpkin numbered and signed to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of black, gray, yellow and more. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in screen print, paper and organic material.
How Much is a Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Numbered And Signed?
The price for a yayoi kusama pumpkin numbered and signed in our collection starts at $353 and tops out at $135,000 with the average selling for $77,101.
Yayoi Kusama for sale on 1stDibs
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.
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