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

Contemporary Day Auction

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Pumpkin signed in English, titled in Japanese and dated 1990 (on the reverse) 22.7 by 15.8 cm. 8⅞ by 6¼ in. Executed in 1990. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc. ---------------------------------------------- 草間彌生 1929 - 2026年 南瓜 款識 Yayoi Kusama，1990，かぼちゃ（作品背面） 22.7 x 15.8 公分 8⅞ x 6¼ 英寸 1990年作 此作品附設株式會社草間彌生簽發之作品註冊卡。

View 1 of Lot 6: Yayoi Kusama 草間彌生 | Pumpkin 南瓜

yayoi kusama 草間彌生 | pumpkin 南瓜

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Pumpkin signed in English and Japanese, and dated 1989 (on the reverse) acrylic on canvas 45.5 by 38 cm. 17⅞ by 15 in. Executed in 1989. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc. ---------------------------------------------- 草間彌生 1929 - 2026年 南瓜 款識 Yayoi Kusama，草間彌生，1989（作品背面） 壓克力畫布 45.5 x 38 公分 17⅞ x 15 英寸 1989年作 此作品附設株式會社草間彌生簽發之作品註冊卡。

View 1 of Lot 1: Yayoi Kusama 草間彌生 | Pumpkin 南瓜

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Infinity-Nets (LHLUJ) signed, titled and dated 2017 (on the reverse) acrylic on canvas 130.5 by 130.3 cm. 51½ by 51¼ in. Executed in 2017. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc. ---------------------------------------------- 草間彌生 1929 - 2026年 無限網（LHLUJ） 壓克力畫布 款識 YAYOI KUSAMA，2017，INFINITY-NETS LHLUJ（作品背面） 130.5 x 130.3 公分 51½ x 51¼ 英寸 2017年作 附：株式會社草間彌生簽發之作品註冊卡。

View 1 of Lot 4: Yayoi Kusama 草間彌生 |  Infinity-Nets (LHLUJ) 無限網（LHLUJ）

yayoi kusama 草間彌生 | infinity-nets (lhluj) 無限網（lhluj）

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026 Nets 19 signed in English, titled in English and dated 1998 (on the reverse) acrylic on canvas 53 by 65 cm. 20⅞ by 25⅝ in. Executed in 1998. This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc. ---------------------------------------------- 草間彌生 1929 - 2026年 網19號 款識 Yayoi Kusama，1998，Nets 19（作品背面） 壓克力畫布 53 x 65 公分 20⅞ x 25⅝ 英寸 1998年作 此作品附設株式會社草間彌生簽發之作品註冊卡。

View 1 of Lot 4: Yayoi Kusama 草間彌生 | Nets 19 網 19號

yayoi kusama 草間彌生 | nets 19 網 19號

screenprint on paperedition of 26/7558.7 × 48.5 cm1983

Pumpkin 

Red Colored Pumpkinscreenprintedition 59/9845.5 x 52.5 cm1994

Red Coloured Pumpkin

A Chat Among Womensilkscreen, etching, embossing on paperedition of P.P. 4/553 x 65 cm2012

A Chat Among Women 

screenprint on paperedition of 89/10052.7 x 45.2 cm1985

Coffee Cup 

collage, pastel, ink on paper54.2 × 39.2 cm1975

Just Before Death

screenprint on paperedition of 77/12065.5 × 53.5 cm1993

Pumpkin God

silkscreen, etching, embossing on paperedition of P.P. 4/545.3 x 52.7 cm2011

Women Wishing for Peace

etching, stencil on paperedition of H.C. 3/537.7 × 45.0 cm2011DMY8N

Sunset 

collage, pastel on paper64.4 × 49.8 cm1980

Nest

screenprint on paperedition of 70/10045.4 x 52.8 cm1989

Snail 

collage, pastel, ink on paper54.5 × 39.5 cm1975

Visiting a Grave under the Sea

1983acrylic on canvas53 x 65 cm

Shinano Road

collage, pastel, gouache, ink on paper54.7 × 42.5 cm1977

Before the Petals Fall

silkscreen and etching, embossing on paperedition of P.P. 4/560.5 x 72.5 cm2012

Seeking the Soul 

screenprint on paperedition of 50/6059.7 x 47.8 cm1999

Wave Crest 

screenprint on paperedition of 74/12029.8 × 22.8 cm1996

Pumpkin (YT)

etching on paperedition of 40/5041.8 x 29.5 cm1994

Wave 

screenprint on paperedition of 68/12072.8 × 60.5 cm1992

Pumpkin

woodcut print on paperedition of 26/12042 × 59.5 cm2014

Mt. Fuji is the Home of My Heart

screenprint on paperedition of 78/12072.3 x 60.4 cm1992

Pumpkin (Yellow T) 

1996acrylic, collage on canvas24 x 17.2 cm

Repetition 

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

Monkey

screenprint on paperedition of 30/10045.0 × 53.5 cm1990

Ashtray

2008acrylic on canvasimage: 194 x 194 cmframed: 196 x 196 cm

Meditation

edition of P.P. 4/531.5 x 40 cm2012

Beginning of Love 

screenprint on paperedition of 99/12072.3 x 60.4 cm1992

Pumpkin (WT) 

screenprint on paperedition of 73/12050 × 72.6 cm1993

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