Pumpkin

Medium: Screenprint in colors on Verin d’Arches paper
[3 screen, 3 colors, 4 runs]
Year: 2000
Image: 27×21 cm (10.6 x 8.3 inches)
Sheet: 31.8 x 25.5 cm (12.5 x 10 inches)
Edition: 135
Artist’s Proofs: 15 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 1 PP
Hors Commerce: 9 HC
Printer: Ishida Ryoichi, Tokyo
Publisher: TOKI-NO-WASUREMONO, Tokyo
Literature: ABE 294
Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979-2017, ABE PUBLISHING LTD, Number 294, Illustrated page 173

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil on lower edge

This print was included in the print journal Toki-No-Wasuremono Vol. 3 Edition A (1/135 – 35/135), Edition B (36/135 – 135/135). The artist designed a dots image especially for this work. The design was then screen-printed onto cotton fabric and used for the collage.

Auction Results

YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin (Kusama 294), 2000
Screenprint, collage
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
From the edition of 135
Printed by Ishida Ryoichi
Published by TOKI-NO-WASUREMONO, Tokyo

K Auction Seoul: 28 May 2025
Estimated: KRW 35,000,000 – 100,000,000
KRW 57,500,000 / USD 41,800

Christie’s New-York: 15 April 2021
Estimated: USD 18,000 – 25,000
USD 40,000

YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Pumpkin, from Toki no Wasuremono Vol. 3
Screen-print in colors with fabric collage on Arches paper
Signed and dated in pencil, titled in Japanese, numbered 8/135
(from Edition A comprising the first 35 prints, there were also fifteen artist’s proofs)