Pumpkin (RYSQ)
Medium: Screenprint in colors on Verin d’Arches paper
[3 screens, 2 colors, 3 runs]
Year: 1998
Image: 30×30 cm (11.8 x 11.8 inches)
Sheet: 39.5 x 38 cm (15.6 x 15 inches)
Edition: 120
Artist’s Proofs: 12 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 5 PP
Printer: Okabe Tokuzo, Tokyo
Literature: ABE 241
Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979-2017, ABE Publishing Ltd., Number 241, Illustrated page 143
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil on lower edge
Auction Results
SBI Art Auction: 25 October 2025
Estimated: JPY 3,000,000 – 5,000,000
JPY 5,060,000 / USD 33,110
YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin (RYSQ) (Kusama 241), 1998
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
From the edition of 120
Printed by Okabe Tokuzo
SBI Art Auction: 12 September 2025
Estimated: JPY 3,000,000 – 6,000,000
JPY 4,830,000 / USD 32,805
YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin (RYSQ) (Kusama 241), 1998
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
From the edition of 120
Phillips Hong-Kong: 14 June 2024
Estimated: HKD 220,000 – 320,000
HKD 304,800 / USD 38,977
YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin (RYSQ) (K. 241), 1998
Screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed, dated, titled in Japanese and numbered 37/120 in pencil (there were also 12 artist’s proofs)
SBI Art Auction: 28 October 2023
Estimated: JPY 3,500,000 – 5,500,000
JPY 7,705,000 / USD 51,238
YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Pumpkin (RYSQ) (Kusama 241), 1998
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered from the edition of 120
Mallet Japan: 5 October 2023
Estimated: JPY 4,000,000 – 6,000,000
JPY 7,400,000 (Hammer)
JPY 8,621,000 / USD 57,925
YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin (RYSQ), 1998
Screenprint in colors
Signed
From the edition of 120
Mainichi Auction: 9 June 2023
Estimated: JPY 4,000,000 – 6,000,000
JPY 6,900,000 / USD 49,510
YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin (RYSQ), 1998
Screenprint
Signed
Printer’s Proof
Aside from the edition of 120
Mainichi Auction: 23 April 2022
Estimated: JPY 3,000,000 – 4,000,000
JPY 7,800,000 (Hammer)
JPY 9,087,000 / USD 70,715
YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin (RYSQ), 1998
Screenprint
Signed
From the edition of 120
SBI Art Auction: 2 November 2019
Estimated: JPY 1,800,000 – 2,800,000
JPY 3,105,000 / USD 28,695
YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin (RYSQ) (Kusama 241), 1998
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
From the edition of 120