Butterfly

Medium: Screen-print in colors on Verin d’Arches paper
[6 screens, 5 colors, 6 runs]
Year: 1988
Image: 67.8 x 78.7 cm (26.7 x 31 inches)
Sheet: 79.5 x 93.5 cm (31.3 x 36.8 inches)
Edition: 50
Artist’s Proofs: 5 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 3 PP
Printer: Okabe Tokuzo, Tokyo
Literature: ABE 119
Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979-2017, ABE PUBLISHING LTD, Number 119, Illustrated page 77

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil on lower edge

 

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Auction Results

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SBI Art Auction: 15 July 2022
Estimated: JPY 3,000,000 – 5,000,000
JPY 8,855,000 / USD 63,715

YAYOI KUSAMA
Butterfly (Kusama 119), 1988
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered from the edition of 50

Christie’s New-York: 1 October 2013
Estimated: USD 8,000 – 10,000
USD 12,500

YAYOI KUSAMA
Butterfly, 1988
Screen-print in colors on Arches paper
Signed, titled and dated in pencil, numbered 36/50