Wave Crest
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Verin d’Arches paper
[3 screens, 2 colors, 3 runs]
Year: 1999
Image: 59.7 x 47.8 cm (23.5 x 18.8 inches)
Sheet: 76 x 56.5 cm (29.9 x 22.2 inches)
Edition: 60
Artist’s Proofs: 6 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 5 PP
Printer: Okabe Tokuzo, Japan
Literature: ABE 251
Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979-2017, ABE PUBLISHING LTD, Number 251, illustrated page 148
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil on lower edge
Auction Results
Est-Ouest Auctions Hong-Kong: 28 May 2023
Estimated: USD 19,000 – 22,000
USD 15,120
YAYOI KUSAMA
WAVE CREST, 1999
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on the margin
Sotheby’s New-York: 19 April 2023
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 18,000
USD 22,860
YAYOI KUSAMA (b. 1929)
Wave Crest, 1999
Screen-print in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, dated, titled in Japanese and numbered 48/60
This impression is number 48 from the edition of 60 plus six artist’s proofs
Est-Ouest Auctions Tokyo: 24 September 2022
Estimated: HKD 1,500,000 – 2,500,000
HKD 2,541,000 / USD 17,860
YAYOI KUSAMA
WAVE CREST, 1999
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on the margin