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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Yayoi Kusama

Accumulation

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Yayoi Kusama

b. 1929


Accumulation

signed and dated 1952 (lower right); signed, dated 1952 and inscribed in Japanese (on the verso)

ink on paper

11 by 9½ in.

27.9 by 24.1 cm.

Executed in 1952.

This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.



Please note, this work is accompanied by a registration card issued by YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.
Ota Replica Handbags s, Tokyo
Acquired from the above in 2009 by the present owner
Warsaw, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Yayoi Kusama, April - May 2004
New York, Cheim & Read, From a Collection of Abstract Works on Paper 1941-1962, October - December 2010
Buenos Aires, Malba - Fundación Costantini; Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Brasilia, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil; Sao Paolo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake and Mexico City, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo Internacional, Yayoi Kusama: Obsesión Infinita, June 2013 - January 2015, no. 15
Yayoi Kusama and Karola Grässlin, Yayoi Kusuma: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1949 bis 2003, Cologne, 2003, p. 43, illustrated in color