Kusama Yayoi

signed in English, titled in English and Japanese, and dated 2003 on the reverse

Japan, Mainichi Auction, 11 March 2017, lot 249
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

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

This work is overall in very good condition. There is light wear at the upper right corner of the work. Under UV light examination, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I am a polka dot. You, too, are a polka dot. Another dot is the friend of that polka dot. The Earth is a polka dot. The sun is in the shape of a polka dot, and the moon, too, is polka dot-shaped. Polka dots do not exist as individual entities. It is within the sense of solidarity due to uniformity of totalitarianism that polka dots exalt themselves as individual entities for the first time."

-Kusama Yayoi