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E ven if your childhood is a distant memory, Halloween can be a treat. As our tenth month draws to a close on All Hallows Eve, we thought it might be fun to scan our auctions and Marketplace for items that scream Halloween. We didn't have to search for long.
From Yayoi Kusama's pumpkin motif, to a carved skull wearing a Baroque-style ruff, we have a few spooky tricks up our sleeves.
This week's Shortlist features five delightfully haunting pieces that you can buy or bid on now.
The late artist Yayoi Kusama first introduced her pumpkin motif in 1993 for the Japan pavilion at the Venice Biennale. It would go on to become one of the most recognizable symbols in contemporary art. This tiny set of 4-inch painted cast resin pumpkins presents an opportunity to own one for yourself at a pocket-sized price.
There is your run-of-the-mill decor and then there is this spectacularly spooky and finely detailed object that demands pride of place in your home. With an impeccable provenance in the collection of Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani, the sumptuously carved bone skull wears a Baroque-style ruff and rests on a malachite base. Starting at $0 with no reserve, it’s already sparked a bidding war. Now’s the time to act before the opportunity vanishes before your eyes.
By now, vampire cinema is almost a dime a dozen—you can't swing a garlic rope without hitting a collectible from the genre. Horror of Dracula is an early, highly-acclaimed iteration based on Bram Stoker's novel and starring the singular Christopher Lee as the bloodsucker himself. This first-year-of-release poster is an excellent way to honor this particular monster.
Kusama's collaboration with Louis Vuitton started in 2012, when Marc Jacobs was still the creative director. At first, the limited-edition bags simply featured Kusama's polka dots. Nine years later, the artist's pumpkins adorned the luxury house's most coveted accessory lines. This watch box features eight of her signature gourds (plus one on the accompanying pouch).
As part of publisher Richard Bentley’s Standard Novels series, Mary Shelley jumped at the chance to polish and, in some cases, expand upon her 1818 Gothic classic. This is the third edition, fourth printing of her first revised edition with Bentley. Bound with Friedrich Schiller’s The Ghost Seer, it contains an engraved frontispiece illustration showing Shelley’s monster coming to life—the first published illustration of the creature in any English edition of Frankenstein. Owning the source material that inspired generations of horror fans is a true Halloween treat.
