Live Auction 13892Post-War & Contemporary Art
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Lot 209

Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)

Pumpkin

Closed28 September 2017

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USD 243,750

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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Pumpkin
signed, titled and dated 'YAYOI KUSAMA 1991 Pumpkin' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
6 3/8 x 9 in. (16.2 x 22.9 cm.)
Painted in 1991.

Private collection, Tokyo
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 2014, lot 220
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"My room, my body, the entire universe was filled with [patterns], my self was eliminated, and I had returned and been reduced to the infinity of eternal time and the absolute of space. This was not an illusion but reality." (Y. Kusama, quoted in L. Hoptman and U. Kultermann, Yayoi Kusama, New York 2000, p. 36).