Lot 615
  • 615

KUSAMA YAYOI | Infinity Nets

Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 HKD
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Description

  • Yayoi Kusama
  • Infinity Nets
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 91.1 by 73 cm; 35⅞ by 28¾ in.
signed and titled in English and dated 1990 on the reverse

Provenance

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1991)
Private Collection, London
Private Collection
Christie's, London, 26 June, 2013, lot 195
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired by the present owner from the above

This work is accompanied with an artwork registration card issued by the artist's studio

Exhibited

San Francisco, Berggruen Gallery, Abstraction: Stories Told in Shape, Colour and Form, March - May 2017

Condition

This work is in good condition with very minor abrasions to the edges and minor surface accretion. When examined under ultraviolet light, four edges fluoresce which are possible in-painting. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

“My room, my body, the entire universe was filled with [patterns], my self was eliminated, and I had returned and been reduced to the infinity of eternal time and the absolute of space. This was not an allusion but reality” -- Kusama Yayoi