This painting is to be sold with a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Studio, Tokyo.

Throughout her career spanning over 60 years, Yayoi Kusama is one of internationally renowned modern artists from Japan. In 1993, Kusama represented Japan at the Venice Biennale, where her mirrors and pumpkins installation was highly acclaimed and a critical success. In 2006 she became the first Japanese female artist to receive the "Praemium Imperiale", Japan's most prestigious prize for internationally recognized artists. Her works are included in the collections of leading museums throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern in London, Centre Pompidou, Paris and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In 2008, her "Infinity Nets" No. 2 set the highest price paid at auction for a living female artist, selling for more than five million dollars in New York. In 2012, she has been honored with a major retrospective of her life's works at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.

Kusama's art is deeply rooted in her psychology, her iconography and images are invariably linked to her early life. Suffering a traumatic childhood at the hands of her mother, at the age of ten she began to have hallucinations. She has recounted that one day as she was sitting at the kitchen table, she was looking at the red flower patterns of the tablecloth. When she looked up, she saw the same pattern covering the ceiling, the windows, the walls, her own body and ultimately the universe. These hallucinations were to persist with her for the rest of her life, and everything in her art from her paintings to her sculptures to her installations even with naked bodies was to become covered in dots, nets or flowers. She has said that the only way she could cope with the obsessional images of her constant hallucinations was to translate them into the outside world in all of her works.

With the lot on offer, executed in 2009 at celebration of her 80th birthday, she has had an art career of mythic dimensions. Kusama is often photographed with these paintings, wearing clothes with textures and colors similar, to merge directly with her works in an endless game of production and reproduction. At this self-portrait, she has merged herself into the infinity dots and nets, composed herself into flowers and cat, a very unique and strong piece derived from her hallucinatory visions. There is a vitality and energy emanating from her works that is immediately attractive and draws the viewer's attention.