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Naoshima Pumpkin (Red) by Yayoi Kusama

Naoshima Pumpkin (Red) by Yayoi Kusama

Lougher Contemporary

Multiple Sculpture

2019

Edition Size: Open

Dimensions: 13x10x10 cm

Unsigned

Condition: Excellent

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Pumpkins have been one of Yayoi Kusama’s favorite subjects since the 1980s, recurring with such frequency as to function as a kind of avatar for the artist. In describing their personal significance, she has remained characteristically elusive, saying only, “I like the essential repetitive form of pumpkins…They’re like everything else I do but at the same time very humorous.”

This is the newest pumpkin (2019) and is sold in original box, stamped on underside.

£950.00

The Artist

Yayoi Kusama

Avant-garde Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama works in many different mediums, including sculpture, painting, performance, books, poems and installation. Her impact can be seen in a wide range of creative movements, including minimalism, pop art, feminist and environment art, and she is viewed as one of Japan’s most influential living artists. Although she trained at the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts in the traditional Japanese painting style of Nihonga in 1948, she quickly turned her back on these established artistic conventions and developed her own unique abstract, conceptual style. The major motif in her work is polka dots. Suffering hallucinations since she was a child, the polka dots are a representation of this experience and, for Kusama, the sign of infinity.

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