19. Yayoi Kusama

19. Yayoi Kusama

The artists who power the $1m+ market
The artists who power the $1m+ market

19. Yayoi Kusama (b.1929)

POST-WAR, b. Matsumoto, Japan

Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama. Photo: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Alamy

Power Rank: 22

Value and supply

Auction totals

Price confidencePrice momentumAverage lot Price
77.3%17.1%$2.8m
Percentage of lots sold above low estimateChange in average lot value 2022 to 2023 (H1)Average lot value over the period 2018–23

Sotheby’s private sales

(2018 to H1 2023)
$82.1m35$2.3m
Private sales valueSold lotsAverage price

Bidders by region

Bidders by age

Top 10 artworks sold at auction

(2018 to H1 2023)
RANKTITLEDATEWHEREWHENSOLD FOR
1Untitled (Nets)1959Phillips New York18 May 2022$10.5m
2Pumpkin (LPASG)2013Christie's Hong Kong1 Dec 2021$8m
3Pumpkin (L)2014Sotheby's Hong Kong5 Apr 2023$8m
4Interminable Net #41959Sotheby's Hong Kong1 Apr 2019$8m
5Flowers2015Christie's Hong Kong28 May 2023$7.5m
6Pumpkin1995Phillips Hong Kong30 Mar 2023$7.1m
7PUMPKIN2017Christie's Hong Kong1 Dec 2021$7.1m
8A-Pumpkin [BAGN8]2011Sotheby's Hong Kong5 Apr 2023$7m
9Pumpkin (Twpot)2010Sotheby's Hong Kong1 Apr 2019$6.9m
10Infinity Nets (TWHOQ)2006Christie's Hong Kong30 Nov 2022$6.8m

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