No S.C.H.T.

Name: Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Brand: No S.C.H.T.
Price: 65000.00 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised EUR 81,250

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EUR 60,000 - EUR 90,000

Closed: 25 Nov 2021

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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)

No S.C.H.T.

Price Realised EUR 81,250

Closed: 25 Nov 2021

Price Realised EUR 81,250

Closed: 25 Nov 2021

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Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
No S.C.H.T.
signed and dated '1952 KUSAMA' (lower left); signed, titled and dated YAYOI KUSAMA 1952 NO. S.C.H.T. (on the reverse)
oil, pastel and gouache on paper
30 x 20,5cm.
Executed in 1952

Galleria del Naviglio, Milan.
Galerie A, Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above in 1996.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

stems from the revolutionary early years of Yayoi Kusama’s practice. Executed in 1952, while the artist was still living in Japan, represents a vivid precursor to her ground-breaking Infinity Net paintings, characterised by their seemingly endless webs of tiny repeated dots. Kusama’s use of the polka dot motif – now synonymous with her – was based on hallucinations she suffered as a child, in which coloured dots covered her body and surroundings. In her paintings, it became a means of looking beyond her personal psychological struggles, obliterating her physical and mental being into the infinite expanse of time and space. ‘Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos’, she explained. ‘Polka dots are a way to infinity’ (Y. Kusama, , Tokyo 1978).

This work is recorded in the archives of Yayoi Kusama, Tokyo.