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YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Pumpkin
signed and dated ‘Yayoi Kusama 1983’ (lower right), titled in Japanese and numbered ‘16/75’ (lower left)
screenprint
image: 58.7 x 48.5 cm. (23 1/8 x 19 in.);
sheet: 69 x 55.2 cm. (27 1/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Executed in 1983
edition 16/75
Provenance
Private Collection
SBI Art Auction Co., Ltd., Japan, 18 April 2015, lot 127
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1 October 2018, Lot 619
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
ABE Publishing Ltd., Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1979-2017, Tokyo, 2017 (different edition illustrated, plate no. 25, p. 25).
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.
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“I love pumpkins, because of their humorous form, warm feeling, and a human-like quality and form. My desire to create works of pumpkins still continues. I have enthusiasm as if I were still a child.” – Yayoi Kusama

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