PRINTPROVENANCE:
Media of Modern Art Collection, (MOMA Gallery), Fukuoka, Japan
|
Kusama in Flower Garden
|
|
1996 Acrylic on canvas, collage 61 x 73 cm Signed on the reverse Yayoi Kusama in English, titled KUSAMA IN FLOWER GARDEN in English and Japanese, dated 1996 |
|
Estimate
400,000 - 700,000 1,640,000 - 2,870,000 51,300 - 89,700
|
|
Sold Price
864,000 3,323,077 110,911
|
|
|
Media of Modern Art Collection, (MOMA Gallery), Fukuoka, Japan
Catalogue Note:
Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 and her status in the international art industry is not to be neglected. Her artworks candidly depict her own history and inescapable nightmares in details. In the forms of paintings, sculptures and action art, Kusama peers into surreal "psychology" and expresses the universe of her mind. Her highly contrastive color schemes returns traces of visual art, music and fashion during the psychedelic period. Her significance is perhaps attributable to her "icon" status, and her explicit yet soulful manifestation.
"Kusama in Flower Garden" illustrates the painting full of Kusama's signature round dots, repetition pattern, and the integration of photo collages. This artwork shows the unique style, and performs the complex psychological implications. It vaguely reiterates her lingering hallucinations, and the soft tones elicit her subconscious anxiety.