Prints & Multiples

Yayoi Kusama b. 1929 Yellow Pumpkin; and Red Pumpkin each with the artist's copyright stamp (on the underside) two cast resin multiples painted in colours, contained in the original presentation boxes height (each): 100 mm. 3⅞ in. box (each): 125 by 128 by 108 mm. 4⅞ by 5 by 4¼ in. Executed in 2015, the multiples are from editions of unknown size, published by Benesse Holdings, Inc. (2 works)

View 1 of Lot 75: Yellow Pumpkin; and Red Pumpkin

yellow pumpkin; and red pumpkin

Yayoi Kusama b. 1929 Naoshima Red Pumpkin with the artist's stamped signature and title (on the underside) cast resin multiple painted in colours, contained in the original presentation box. height: 95 mm. 3¾ in. Executed in 2019, this multiple is from an open edition, published by Benesse Holdings, Inc.

naoshima red pumpkin

Every Day I Pray For Loveacrylic on canvassigned YAYOI KUSAMA, titled EVERY-DAY I PRAY-FOR LOVE, and dated 2022 on the reverse80.3 by 65.2 cm. 31 5/8 by 25 5/8 in.90.4 by 75.6 cm. 35 5/8 by 29 3/4 in. (framed)Executed in 2022

Every Day I Pray For Love

Plush pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama.<ul><li>Large white and red pumpkin with polka-dot patterning.</li><li>Published by Dots Obsession circa 2015.</li></ul>

Kusama Plush Pumpkin

Monkeysigned and dated 1980collage with acrylic, pastel, ink and felt pen on papercm 65,8x51,2

Monkey

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Kusama&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kusama</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=exhibition%20catalog&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exhibition catalog</a> marking the turning point of Kusama’s international stardom.<ul><li>After Yayoi Kusama (Japanese).</li><li>Tokyo: 1992.</li><li>Published on the occasion of the retrospective: Yayoi Kusama Sogetsu Art Museum Tokyo / Committee of the Exhibition of Yayoi Kusama.</li><li>Hardcover.</li><li>Bound in bright green felt, with a silver stamped front title area and spine.</li></ul> Yayoi Kusama Sogetsu Art Museum Tokyo / Committee of the Exhibition of Yayoi Kusama: Sept. 21 – Oct. 31, 1992. One of a series of retrospectives in the 1980s and 1990s which brought the artist back into international prominence, following a period of inattention as a result of Kusama departing New York in 1973. 20 years later, this exhibition at the Sogetsu Museum became a historical step towards Kusama's representation at the Venice Biennale in 1993.

Yayoi Kusama Sogetsu Art Museum Exhibition Catalog

A 1960s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Kusama&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kusama</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/art-&amp;-artist" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exhibition poster</a>.<ul><li>Published on the occasion of: Yayoi Kusama at Galleria del Naviglio Milan: Jan. 26-February 9th, 1966.</li><li>Brochure on one side, foldout poster on reverse.</li><li>Includes an interview with Kusama and Gordon Brown (in Italian), and a quote from her key early supporter, Herbert Read, referring to Kusama's art as "the most authentic type of super reality."</li><li>Offset printed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> In 1964, Yayoi Kusama followed-up her Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show with her provocative Driving Image Show at Castellane Gallery NY - an installation that would eventually travel to Europe, (including Milan's Galleria del Naviglio). This highly collectible vintage original 60s Kusama poster, uniquely features the artist in a macaroni dress (shot by Peter Moore); and is defined by the evocative keywords: ‘sex-food-obsession, compulsion-furniture, repetitive-vision, macaroni-room, air-quanta, interminable-nets, perseveration-forms'.

Yayoi Kusama Driving Image Show Exhibition Poster

Pumpkins by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Yayoi+Kusama&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yayoi Kusama</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, born 1929).</li><li>Each is stamped on the underside.</li></ul>

Kusama Pumpkins

Plush pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama.<ul><li>Yellow and black pumpkin with polka-dot patterning.</li><li>Part of an unnumbered edition of unknown size.</li><li>Published by Dots Obsession circa 2015.</li></ul>

A first edition copy of Kusama's first novel, ンハッタン自殺未遂常習犯, (Manhattan Suicide Addict) never translated into English, illustrated with the artist's own work.<ul><li>Yayoi Kusama (Japanese).</li><li>Photography by Hikaru Sasaki (Japanese).</li><li>Foreword by Herbert Read.</li><li>Afterword by Shuzo Takiguchi.</li><li>Tokyo:&nbsp;Kowsakusha/Workshop and Forum International,&nbsp;1978.</li><li>Includes black and white drawings by Kusama.</li><li>In Japanese with English headings.</li><li>Presented in the original orange and silver wrappers, with original orange dust jackets.</li></ul> Manhattan Suicide Addict was written in three weeks "in a burst of manic energy," following the death of Kusama's longtime close friend Joseph Cornell and her subsequent return to Tokyo and entrance into Seiwa Hospital for the mentally ill. Remarkably, the debut novel of Japan's greatest living artist was translated into French only in 2005, and to date, no complete English version has been attempted. The text is a semi-autobiographical psychedelic vision of the artist's early years in New York City, illustrated with black and white reproductions of her dense, layered paintings and collages, full of quintessentially Kusama botanical, serpentine, lace-like, and polka-dot patterns reminiscent of her best-known and most popular work. The artist would revisit this period of her life in her much later autobiography Infinity Net: "New York was in every way a fierce and violent place. I found it all extremely stressful and was soon mired in neurosis.[...] My hands are empty now, but I shall fill them with everything my heart desires, right here in New York."

Manhattan Suicide Addict

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/fashion/handbag/louis-vuitton" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Louis Vuitton</a>&nbsp;X Yayoi Kusama BlackMonogram and Multicolor Infinity Dots Monogram Coated Canvas <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/fashion/handbag/louis-vuitton/keepall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keepall</a>&nbsp;Bandoulière 45 Black Hardware, 2023<ul><li>The interior is lined in black textile material</li><li>Includes shoulder strap, luggage tag, lock, keys and dustbag</li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li><li>This item ships from Hong Kong; applicable import duties, taxes, or fees may be assessed by the destination country. Domestic alternatives may be available.</li></ul>

X Yayoi Kusama BlackMonogram and Multicolor Infinity Dots Monogram Coated Canvas Keepall Bandoulière 45 Black Hardware, 2023

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Skateboard%20deck&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Skateboard deck</a> with artwork by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Yayoi%20Kusama&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yayoi Kusama</a>.<ul><li>Published by MoMA New York.</li><li>Printed artist signature and MoMA logo on reverse of each.</li><li>From a sold-out edition of unknown size.</li><li>Skateboard deck features imagery from Kusama's&nbsp;Dots Obsession&nbsp;series.</li></ul>

Kusama Skateboard Deck

A dizzying poster of Kusama's iconic polka-dotted soft sculptures, advertising the opening of the 1965 installation at the Castellane Gallery of her first ever mirror room, hand-addressed by Kusama in 1965 to the Museum of Modern Art.<ul><li>Produced by Castellane Gallery in 1965.</li><li>Hand-addressed by the artist to the Museum of Modern Art on verso, with 1965 Grand Central Station postmark.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Kusama's exhibition, titled in full "Infinity Mirror Room —Phalli's Field (Floor Show)," was documented in a series of photographs of the artist reclining on her own "phallus meadow" in a red leotard — the most famous and striking images of her work from that era. In her autobiography, Kusama describes the installation that marked the beginning of arguably her best-known and most popular series of works: "The walls of the room were mirrors, and sprouting from the floor were thousands of white canvas phallic forms covered with red polka dots. The mirrors reflected them infinitely, summoning up a sublime, miraculous field of phalluses. People could walk barefoot through the phallus meadow, becoming one with the work and experiencing their own figures and movement as part of the sculpture. Wandering into this infinite wonderland, where a grandiose aggregation of human sexual symbols had been transformed into a humorous, polka-dotted field, viewers found themselves spellbound by the imagination as it exorcised sexual sickness in the naked light of day." The New York Times described Kusama's mid-'60s work as the "awful vision of a self-perpetuating infinity," but they meant they liked it. The verso of the poster is addressed by Kusama to MoMA, which now holds numerous works by the artist in their permanent collection and mounted her site-specific installation Narcissus Garden at PS1 in 2018. An important association of this scarce document for an early and landmark show from this major artist — distinctly rare addressed by Kusama.

Floor Show Exhibition Poster

Skateboard deck with Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession imagery, produced by MoMA, Museum of Modern Art.<ul><li>White with red dots of varying sizes.</li><li>Part of a sold-out and out-of-print limited edition of unknown size.</li><li>Printed artist signature and artist copyright stamp on reverse.</li></ul>

Dots Obsession Skateboard Deck

Louis Vuitton Yayoi Kusama Paint Dot Zippy Card Holder Black Hardware, 2022<ul><li>The interior is lined in a tonal coated canvas</li><li>Includes dust bag and box</li><li>This item is final sale and not eligible for return</li></ul>

Yayoi Kusama Paint Dot Zippy Card Holder Black Hardware, 2022

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