Live Auction 18977Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Lot 116

Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)

Before the Destruction of the Flower Garden

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 400,000

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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Before the Destruction of the Flower Garden
signed, titled in Japanese and dated '1988 Yayoi Kusama' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
18 x 21 in. (45.7 x 53.3 cm.)
Painted in 1988.

Private collection, Tokyo, acquired directly from the artist, circa 1991
Private collection
Anon. sale; SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd., 27 October 2018, lot 58
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note


We were born on earth. After all, well… moon is a polka-dot, sun is a polka-dot, and then, the earth we live on is also a polka-dot. And also you can find them in a form of the eternally mysterious cosmos, too. And through them, I wanted to see a philosophy of life.
—Yayoi Kusama