Yayoi Kusama

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Sold

266,500 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

Yayoi Kusama
Universe Fireballs
signed, titled and dated 2008 on the reverse
acrylic on canvas

Provenance

Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Yayoi Kusama: Flowers that Bloom at Midnight, 2009

Milan, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Yayoi Kusama: I want to live forever, 2009-10

Catalogue Note

“The simple patterns of polka dots and nets were Kusama’s answer to the question of how she might express an infinitely expanding world and the result of her continued self-analysis…”

Akira Shibutami in: Exhibition Catalogue, Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity, 2012, p. 156.