Live Auction 15969Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Lot 602

Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)

The Spirit of Insect

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 100,000

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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
The Spirit of Insect
signed and dated '1981 Yayoi Kusama' (lower right); signed again in English and Japanese and dated again '1981 Yayoi Kusama' (on the reverse)
oil, charcoal, ink, silk and printed paper collage on paper
25 7/8 x 20 1/8 in. (65.7 x 51.1 cm.)
Executed in 1981.

MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka
Private Collection, Japan
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 22 September 2010, lot 78
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"What comes through behind Kusama's paintings is no longer a naturalistic space but something like a memory of the place where things used to be rather than a void in which anything can happen." -S. Tillim, "Yayoi Kusama" quoted by M. Yamamura, "Transforming Infinite: Yayoi Kusama's Net Paintings", Yayoi Kusama, Gagosian Gallery, New York, exh. cat., 2009, p.30.