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The Endless Life of People

Yayoi Kusama

Dovehouse Contemporary United Arab Emirates

Artwork details

Artist

Yayoi Kusama

Title

The Endless Life of People

Description

Offset Lithograph Print. Unknown edition. 40.6 x 40.6 cm

Excellent condition. Stamped text on reverse with artists printed name and copyright from the Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Japan on verso.

Notes: Kusama once declared “My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots”. She has created a universe made of psychedelic compositions inspired by her own hallucinations, and recognizable at first sight. She has been exhibited internationally for 50 years, alongside Andy Warhol, Yves Klein and Jasper Johns. After the great success of Kusama’s retrospective exhibition in 2011 at the Pompidou Centre, Louis Vuitton paid tribute to her work by creating an entire collection based on her dot motifs.

Date

2010

Medium

Offset Lithograph

Edition

Unknown edition

Signature

Unsigned

Image

40.6 x 40.6 cm cm

Sheet

40.6 x 40.6 cm cm

Status

Available

Price

Price on request

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.