Yayoi KusamaInfinity Nets, 1953-1984 Limited edition print by Yayoi Kusama signed1953-1984
1953-1984
About the Item
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Infinity Nets, 1953–1984
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Vélin d’Arches paper
Image: 31 × 40.6 cm (12 1/4 × 16 in)
Sheet: 43.5 × 56.5 cm (17 1/8 × 22 1/4 in)
Framed: 52 × 68 × 2 cm
Edition: 28/30
Signature/Numbering: Signed, titled, and dated in pencil; numbered 28/30 lower left
Printer: Kimura Kihachi
Provenance
Mainichi Auction, Tokyo, Japan
Acquired from the above
Literature
A print of the same edition is represented in plate 46 of the Catalogue Raisonné of Kusama's prints:
Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979–2017 published in 2017 by ABE Books
Description
An early and rare print from a small edition of 30, Infinity Nets (1953–1984) translates Kusama’s foundational motif into graphic form with striking clarity. Fine, hand-drawn arcs interlace across the surface in a rhythmic continuum, echoing the meditative repetition that defined her earliest abstractions of the 1950s. The image radiates quiet intensity—each mark a pulse within the infinite field—capturing the balance between discipline and dissolution that lies at the core of Kusama’s lifelong exploration of infinity.
- Creator:Yayoi Kusama (1929, Japanese)
- Creation Year:1953-1984
- Dimensions:Height: 17.13 in (43.5 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.5 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:In excellent condition, with no evident damages or signs of aging. Framed in a new frame.
- Gallery Location:Hong Kong, HK
- Reference Number:Seller: YK-0321stDibs: LU1545217294772
Yayoi Kusama
Widely inspirational and innovative artist Yayoi Kusama has a body of work that is exceptionally varied, ranging from graphic prints and paintings to polka-dot pumpkin sculptures, hypnotic collages, large-scale installations and fashion design.
Even if you don’t know her name, you’ve likely experienced Kusama’s art — or have seen it on Instagram. Her soft sculptures and dazzling “Infinity Mirrors” are the stuff of selfie-takers’ dreams, but Kusama’s impressive decades-long career certainly holds far more cachet than it does fodder for today’s aspiring social-media influencers.
Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, Kusama has worked with her signature polka dots since the age of 10, when she began to experience vivid hallucinations and claimed that patterns and dots were moving around her, swallowing up everything in view. She started to incorporate them into her paintings as a child. Kusama saw circular forms and nets on every surface and became especially fascinated with the pebbles that lined the bottom of the creek near her childhood home. Her family was sternly opposed to her art and her mother physically abused Kusama and discouraged her at a very early age. She has suffered psychological turmoil her whole life and is vocal about her mental illness. Today, Kusama is a voluntary resident at a psychiatric facility in Tokyo, and she calls her work “art medicine.”
At the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, Kusama trained in Nihonga, a traditional style of Japanese painting that originated during the Meiji period. On advice she solicited from painter Georgia O'Keeffe, a pioneer of modernism in America whom she greatly admired, she subsequently moved to New York City in 1958. There, Kusama flourished, creating prescient sculptures and large-scale monochrome paintings that bridged current styles with minimalism, which hadn’t yet achieved any kind of prominence as an art movement. She pushed boundaries with her “Accumulations” series, which saw her transforming found furniture pieces into sexualized objects, as well as with an avant-garde staging of theatrical orgies on the street — both stemming from her anxieties about sex as well as an endeavor to make a feminist statement about patriarchal authority and sexism.
Kusama was captivated by Surrealists as well as the Abstract Expressionists and greatly influenced the Pop artists who followed, befriending such icons as Donald Judd — who called her work “the best paintings being done” — and Andy Warhol, with whom she exhibited and later accused of stealing her ideas. Kusama moved with ease through artistic circles and made a point to draw attention to her “otherness” as a Japanese woman by wearing kimonos to her openings.
In 2021, Kusama brought her floral and vegetal sculptures to the New York Botanical Garden and her works can be found in the collections of many of the world’s top museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. She famously collaborated with Louis Vuitton in 2012, and she created a 34-foot-tall balloon for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan in 2019, becoming the first female artist to design a work for the event. In addition to her visual artwork, Kusama is a writer, publishing poetry, novels and an autobiography.
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