Before the Destruction of the Flower Garden

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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.

Provenance

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

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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

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