Live Auction 2139021st Century Art Day Sale
YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Lot 314

YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)

For Venice Biennal(e)

Closed29 May 2023

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HKD 2,520,000

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YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
For Venice Biennal(e)
signed, titled and dated 'for Venice Biennal 68 Y. Kusama' (lower right); signed, titled and dated again 'for Venice Biennal 68 68 Yayoi Kusama' (on the reverse)
acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper
40.5 x 50.5 cm. (16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Painted in 1968

UMI Gallery, Tokyo
Private collection, Asia
Sotheby's Olympia, 19 June 2006, lot 775
Private collection (acquired at the above sale by the previous owner)
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 6 October 2013, lot 902
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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

Specialist note

How about taking a trip with me out to Central Park...under the magic mushroom of the Alice in Wonderland Statue...I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

-YAYOI KUSAMA