YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)

"Kusama's early experiments in watercolour were extensive, ambitious and highly original. She evolved an intensely coloured and animated manner, with spontaneous lyrical gestures and distinctive types of patterning - and developed a vocabulary of biomorphic and microscopic organic forms, essentially abstract but evocative of stellar, aquatic or subterranean world" (F. Morris, Yayoi Kusama, London, 2012, p. 11).