Live Auction 1690221st Century Art Day Sale
YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Lot 192

YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)

Pumpkin

Closed2 December 2021

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HKD 11,290,000

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YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Pumpkin
signed and dated ‘1989 Yayoi Kusama’; titled in Japanese (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
38 x 45.5 cm. (15 x 17 7⁄8 in.)
Painted in 1989

Shinwa Auction Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 17 November 2007, lot 113
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

This work is accompanied by the registration card issued by the artist’s studio.

Specialist note

“I would confront the spirit of the pumpkin, forgetting everything else and concentrating my mind entirely on the form before me.”
— Yayoi Kusama