Lot 56
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
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.
Modern & Contemporary Art
Ravenel Autumn Auction 2011 Hong Kong
Monday, November 28, 2011, 11:30am