Lot  56 Ravenel Autumn Auction 2011 Hong Kong

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2011 Hong Kong

Kusama in Flower Garden

Yayoi KUSAMA (Japanese, 1929)

1996

Acrylic on canvas, collage

61 x 73 cm

Estimate

TWD 1,640,000-2,870,000

HKD 400,000-700,000

USD 51,300-89,700

Sold Price

TWD 3,323,077

HKD 864,000

USD 110,911


Signature

Signed on the reverse Yayoi Kusama in English, titled KUSAMA IN FLOWER GARDEN in English and Japanese, dated 1996

PROVENANCE:


Media of Modern Art Collection, (MOMA Gallery), Fukuoka, Japan

+ OVERVIEW

Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929 and her status in the international art industry is not to be neglected. Her artworks candidly depict her own history and inescapable nightmares in details. In the forms of paintings, sculptures and action art, Kusama peers into surreal "psychology" and expresses the universe of her mind. Her highly contrastive color schemes returns traces of visual art, music and fashion during the psychedelic period. Her significance is perhaps attributable to her "icon" status, and her explicit yet soulful manifestation.

"Kusama in Flower Garden" illustrates the painting full of Kusama's signature round dots, repetition pattern, and the integration of photo collages. This artwork shows the unique style, and performs the complex psychological implications. It vaguely reiterates her lingering hallucinations, and the soft tones elicit her subconscious anxiety.

Related Info

Modern & Contemporary Art

Ravenel Autumn Auction 2011 Hong Kong

Monday, November 28, 2011, 11:30am