ID 1044978
Lot 18 | YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Estimate value
£ 1 800 000 – 2 500 000
Flame
each: signed, titled, titled in Japanese, numbered and dated '1992 YAYOI KUSAMA FLAME' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas, in three parts
overall: 57 ¼ x 114 ¾in. (145.5 x 291.5cm.)
Painted in 1992
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.
Literature
L. Hoptman, A. Tatehata and U. Kultermann, Yayoi Kusama, London 2003 (illustrated in colour with incorrect dimensions, p. 73).
L. Neri and T. Goto (eds.), Yayoi Kusama, New York 2012 (illustrated in colour with incorrect arrangement and dimensions, pp. 86-87 and 279).
Exhibited
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Yayoi Kusama, 2011-2012, p. 205, no. 93 (illustrated in colour with incorrect dimensions, p. 142). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; London, Tate Modern and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Further Details
This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Inc.
| Artist: | Yayoi Kusama (1929) |
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| Applied technique: | Acrylic, Painted |
| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Yayoi Kusama (1929) |
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| Applied technique: | Acrylic, Painted |
| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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