Renowned as the national artist in Japan, Yayoi Kusama went to New York, US, in 1957 and produced avant garde art pieces with prominent contemporaries of the century. Her works were exhibited alongside those of Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. As an active member of the art scene, she once led the promotion of pop art. In 1993, Kusama was acclaimed as the first female solo artist to represent Japan in the Venice Biennale. Her fame is well established in Japan and the International art scene.



In recent years, Yayoi Kusama’s style has remained highly popular as the combined result of retrospective art exhibitions organized by academic institutions, art promotion at large international galleries, and collaboration with fashionable trendy brands. Now, everyone around the globe—whether they are art collectors or people with fewer art appreciation experience— knows Yayoi Kusama as a great artist who innovatively creates new styles. Since 2012, the price of Yayoi Kusama’s work has performed exceptionally well in the art market. With Internet media effects, changes in economic structure, and new generation’s acceptance of limited edition artwork, Yayoi Kusama’s artistic inspiration and market potential continue to be on the rise. This auction will showcase different kinds of Yayoi Kusama’s works, including four pieces of original acrylic paintings, singlepiece original sculptures, precious limited edition prints, and multiples of small crafts. This is an opportunity for collectors to own the artist’s works in different creative media.



Every work produced by Kusama is composed with dots, lines and layers of colours. Through the intertwined network of dots and lines, infinite possibilities were created. She believes the network symbolises the birth of life. This work, Lemon Tea, was completed in 1982 with refined strokes and the classical contrast of yellow and black. The vivid depiction is associated with the visual illusion and psychological impact she faced in her childhood. The contrast of yellow lines over a black background suggests her Infinity net series. The intersecting lines constitute a mosaic pattern that reveals an image of a cup with a (slice of?) lemon. Dots on the fruit and the cup vary in sizes creating visual illusion, hence suggest the unique creativeness of the artist.