Untitled (Hat)

Details

YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Untitled (Hat)
acrylic on sewn, stuffed fabric and straw hat
13 x 30 x 18 in. (33 x 76.2 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1962.

Provenance

Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 April 2017, lot 13
Private collection, Asia
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1998, p. 191.

Exhibited

The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Vienna, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, February 1998-April 1999, p. 383.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Paris, Centre Pompidou; London, Tate Modern and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yayoi Kusama, May 2011-September 2012.
London and New York, Ordovas Gallery, Artists and Lovers, September 2016-January 2017, n.p.

Further details

This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by the artist's studio.

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Lot Essay

"Obsessions, phallus obsessions, obsessions of fear, are the main themes of my art. Accumulation is how the stars and the earth don’t exist alone, but rather the entire universe is made of an accumulation of the stars. It is just like when you see the flowers, I see the flowers everywhere and there are so many, and I feel panicked and become so overwhelmed that I want to eat them all." - Yayoi Kusama

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