Lemon Juice

Details

YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Lemon Juice
titled in Japanese, signed and dated 'Yayoi Kusama 1983' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
53 x 45.5 cm. (20 7⁄8 x 17 7⁄8 in.)
Painted in 1983

Provenance

Umi Gallery, Tokyo
Private collection (Acquired from the above by the previous owner in 2001)
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1 April 2018, lot 614
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Further details

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

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Lot Essay

“Yayoi Kusama’s works from the 1980s and 1990s differ from that of the 1950s and 1960s because of her insistence on an aesthetic of the handmade over that of the machine and, concomitantly, the self-referential abstraction inherent in her signature motifs … (which was) as if Kusama has realized that her identity has finally been established and the time has arrived for its free proliferation and franchise.” - Laura Hoptman

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