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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Yayoi Kusama

Accumulation

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Yayoi Kusama

b. 1929


Accumulation

signed and dated 1952 (lower right); signed, dated 1952 and inscribed in Japanese (on the verso)

ink on paper

11 by 9½ in.

27.9 by 24.1 cm.

Executed in 1952.

This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.



Please note, this work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Acquired from the above in 2009 by the present owner
Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Yayoi Kusama, April - May 2004
New York, Cheim & Read, From a Collection of Abstract Works on Paper 1941-1962, October - December 2010
Buenos Aires, Malba - Fundación Costantini; Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Brasilia, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Sao Paolo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake and Mexico City, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo Internacional, Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión Infinita, June 2013 - January 2015, no. 15
Yayoi Kusama and Karola Grässlin, Yayoi Kusuma: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1949 bis 2003, Cologne, 2003, p. 43, illustrated in color