Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)

Pumpkin

Details
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Pumpkin
signed, titled and dated 'YAYOI KUSAMA 1991 Pumpkin' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
6 3/8 x 9 in. (16.2 x 22.9 cm.)
Painted in 1991.
Provenance
Private collection, Tokyo
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 2014, lot 220
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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Lot Essay

"My room, my body, the entire universe was filled with [patterns], my self was eliminated, and I had returned and been reduced to the infinity of eternal time and the absolute of space. This was not an illusion but reality." (Y. Kusama, quoted in L. Hoptman and U. Kultermann, Yayoi Kusama, New York 2000, p. 36).

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