Live Auction 13273Asian Contemporary Art (Day Sale)
YAYOI KUSAMA (JAPAN, B. 1929)
Lot 247

YAYOI KUSAMA (JAPAN, B. 1929)

Galaxy

Closed26 November 2017

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HKD 2,980,000

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YAYOI KUSAMA (JAPAN, B. 1929)
Galaxy
signed and dated 'Yayoi Kusama 1991'; titled in Japanese (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
117 x 91 cm. (46 1/8 x 35 7/8 in.)
Painted in 1991

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Private Collection, Europe
The work is accompanied by a registration card issued by the artist's studio

Specialist note

“I wish that I am able to manipulate these polka dots so that I can measure the infinitude of the universe from where I am. How deep are the secrets of the universes? Beyond the edge of the infinite universe, is there more infinity? I observe these phenomenon, and I want to examine this aspect of my own life. My life is a dot - it is a dot amongst hundreds of millions of atoms. I need to use an astronomical number of dots to weave a pale and empty void of a net. From here and now, it declares the obliteration of the self, the others, and everything in the universe” -Yayoi Kusama