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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Lot 222 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)

Infinity Nets CPW

Closed17 February 2011

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GBP 169,250

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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Infinity Nets CPW
signed, titled in English and Japanese and dated 'CPW YAYOI KUSAMA 2007 INFINITY-NETS' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
63 5/8 x 63 5/8in. (162 x 162cm.)
Exectued in 2007

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

'My net paintings were... without composition without beginning, end or centre. The entire canvas would be occupied by monochromatic nets... You might say that I came under the spell of repetition and aggregation. My nets grew beyond myself and beyond the canvases I was covering with them. They began to cover walls, the ceiling, and finally the whole universe. I was always standing at the centre of the obsession, over the passionate accretion and repetition inside of me' (Kusama, quoted in L. Hoptman, A. Tatehata, U. Kultermann, Yayoi Kusama, London 2000, p. 103).