Sea

Medium: Screenprint in colors on Izumi paper
[10 screens, 9 colors, 10 runs]
Year: 1989
Image: 45 x 52.7 cm (17.8 x 20.8 inches)
Sheet: 53.5 x 61 cm (21.1 x 24 inches)
Edition: 100
Artist’s Proofs: 10 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 3 PP
Printer: Okabe Tokuzo, Tokyo
Literature: ABE 136
Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979-2017, ABE PUBLISHING LTD, Number 136, Illustrated page 89

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil on lower edge

 

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Auction Results

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Mainichi Auction: 19 July 2025
Estimated: JPY 2,000,000 – 3,000,000
JPY 3,450,000 / USD 23,185
YAYOI KUSAMA
Sea (ABE 136), 1989
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered
From the edition of 100

Mainichi Auction: 26 April 2025
Estimated: JPY 2,500,000 – 3,500,000
JPY 3,910,000 / USD 27,215
YAYOI KUSAMA
Sea (ABE 136), 1989
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered
From the edition of 100

Mainichi Auction: 20 July 2024
Estimated: JPY 2,000,000 – 3,000,000
JPY 4,310,500 (Hammer)
JPY 4,830,000 / USD 30,685
YAYOI KUSAMA
Sea (ABE 136), 1989
Screenprint
Signed, dated and inscribed “AP”
An artist’s proof aside from the edition of 100

Mainichi Auction: 15 October 2021
Estimated: JPY 1,500,000 – 2,000,000
JPY 2,300,000 (Hammer)
JPY 2,679,500 / USD 23,445
YAYOI KUSAMA
Sea (ABE 136), 1989
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered
From the edition of 100

Mallet Japan: 20 May 2021
Estimated: JPY 1,500,000 – 2,000,000
JPY 3,200,000 (Hammer)
JPY 3,728,000 / USD 34,270

YAYOI KUSAMA
Sea, 1989
Screenprint in colors on Izumi
Signed, dated and numbered 76/100

Mainichi Auction: 9 April 2021
Estimated: JPY 1,000,000 – 1,500,000
JPY 2,500,000 (Hammer)
JPY 2,912,500 / USD 26,565
YAYOI KUSAMA
Sea (ABE 136), 1989
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered
From the edition of 100

Est Ouest Auctions Tokyo: 18 July 2020
Estimated: JPY 1,200,000 – 1,700,000
JPY 2,185,000 / USD 20,415

Phillips London: 9 June 2016
Estimated: GBP 2,000 – 3,000
GBP 4,750 / USD 6,925