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YAYOI KUSAMA (JAPAN, B. 1929)
Lot 70

YAYOI KUSAMA (JAPAN, B. 1929)

(Hymn of Life) (1) Infinity Nets

Closed29 March 2018

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HKD 1,125,000

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YAYOI KUSAMA (JAPAN, B. 1929)
(Hymn of Life) (1) Infinity Nets
signed, dated and titled ‘YAYOI KUSAMA 1988 HYMN OF LIFE (1) INFINITY NETS’, titled in Japanese (on the reverse); signed ‘yayoi Kusama’ (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas
72.7 x 60.6 cm. (28 5/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
Painted in 1988

Gallery Sekiryu, Matsumoto, Japan
Acquired from the above by the previous owner circa 1988
Private Collection, Japan (acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2008)
This work is accompanied by the registration card issued by the artist’s studio.

Specialist note

“THE MACHINERY OF THE SKY THAT CONFOUNDS US ON EARTH WITH ENDLESS TRANSFORMATIONS OF CLOUDS IN THE LIGHT OF DAWN DOES NOT COMPARE TO THE EXTRAORDINARY TENACITY OF HUMAN BEINGS, THE WAY OF HUMAN LIFE, THE PRESENTIMENT OF APPROACHING DEATH, THE EXISTENCE OF LOVE, THE BRILLIANT CORUSCATIONS OF LIGHT AND THE DARK SCARS OF OUR LIVES, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE INCOMPREHENSIBLE FORM OF THE COSMOS AND THE OVERWHELMING MYSTERIES OF SPACE, TIME, DISTANCE.”
-EXCERPT FROM INFINITY NET: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF YAYOI KUSAMA