Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is known for her installations, sculptures and paintings and numbers among the most influential living contemporary artists. Born in Nagano in 1929, Kusama began creating art and writing poetry at a young age. Soon after relocating to Seattle in 1957, she headed to New York City where she became friends with the artists Donald Judd and Joseph Cornell. It was during these years that she originated her Infinity Net paintings, intricate webs of paint comprising repetitive brushstrokes. In the early 1960s Kusama rose to prominence through a series of Happenings and Pop performances, but, suffering from exhaustion, she returned to Japan at the beginning of the 1970s, retreating from the art world until the 1993 Venice Biennale. In the Japanese Pavilion, she installed her Mirror Room (Pumpkin), a mirrored room filled with her signature dotted pumpkin sculptures. Kusama has continued to develop an expansive and prolific practice, cultivating her specific visual lexicon that is at once whimsical, erotic and participatory. In 2017 the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, organized the highly acclaimed Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, an exhibition featuring six of her iconic Infinity Rooms, which opened to overwhelming public success. The Broad in Los Angeles has two Infinity Rooms in its collection; elsewhere, Kusama’s works may be found in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. For those owning Kusama, the market is decidedly strong. According to Sotheby’s Mei Moses, the average compound annual return for Yayoi Kusama resold at auction between 2003 and 2017 was 26.2%. 92.3% of 65 such works increased in value.

Yayoi Kusama

The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

Property from a Private Collection Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Infinity Nets (OZEH) signed, titled and dated 2011 (on the reverse) acrylic on canvas 76 ½ by 102 ¼ in. 194.3 by 259.7 cm. Executed in 2011. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.

infinity nets (ozeh)

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Day Auction

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Untitled (Mannequin) acrylic on wooden mannequin with synthetic wig 67 by 25 ⅝ by 15 ¾ in. 170.2 by 65.1 by 40 cm. Executed in 1966, this work is unique. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.

untitled (mannequin)

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 SEA signed, titled twice and dated twice 1981 and 81 (on the underside) acrylic, spray paint, plastic and sewn stuffed fabric in fabric-lined wooden box 21 ½ by 12 ¾ by 5 ¼ in. 54.6 by 32.4 by 13.3 cm Executed in 1981. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.

Contemporary Day Auction

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Summer in the Lake signed and dated 1978 (lower right); signed in English and Japanese, titled in Japanese and dated 1978 (on the reverse) enamel on paperboard 10 ½ by 9 ⅛ in. 26.7 by 23.2 cm. Executed in 1978. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.

summer in the lake

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Infinity Nets (PEAA) signed, titled and dated 2013 (on the reverse) acrylic on canvas 39 ⅜ by 39 ⅜ in. 100 by 100 cm. Executed in 2013. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.

infinity nets (peaa)

A Way to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama | No. 3P.B. | 1960

A Way to Infinity: Yayoi Kusama | No. 3P.B. | 1960 Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 No. 3P.B. signed, titled and dated 1960 (on the reverse) oil on canvas 62 ⅝ by 56 ½ in. 159.1 by 143.5 cm. Executed in 1960.

no. 3p.b.

Vision: The Extraordinary Collection of Theodore and Ruth Baum Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Moon Night signed, titled in Japanese and dated 1984 (on the underside) acrylic, synthetic fibers, plastic and sewn stuffed fabric in wooden box 15 ¾ by 9 ⅞ by 4 ¾ in. 40 by 25.1 by 12.1 cm. Executed in 1984. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.

moon night

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

Monkey

Louis Vuitton X Yayoi Kusama Limited Edition Brown Monogram Canvas Multicolor Pumpkin Watch Box Gold Hardware, 2023<ul><li>The interior is lined in Turquoise textile material</li><li>Includes two removable compartments, pouch, keys and four watches cushion</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>

Limited Edition Brown Monogram Canvas Multicolor Pumpkin Watch Box Gold Hardware, 2023

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

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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