YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
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YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)

The Configuration of Desire

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YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
The Configuration of Desire
signed and dated 'YAYOI KUSAMA 1954' (lower right); signed again twice, titled and dated again 'Yayoi Kusama THE CONFIGURATION OF DESIRE YAYOI KUSAMA 1954' (on the backing board)
gouache and ink on paper laid down on paperboard
20 1⁄4 x 18 in. (51.4 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in 1954.
Provenance
Private collection, Chicago
Private collection, Highland Park, Illinois, circa 1975
Anon. sale; Wright, Chicago, 11 December 2008, lot 421
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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Lot Essay

"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).

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