YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
INFINITY-NETS (TTWAM), 2007
Acrylic on canvas
117×117 cm (46×46 inches)
Signed, titled and dated ‘Yayoi Kusama 2007 INFINITY-NETS TTWAM’
Titled again in Japanese (on the reverse)
Provenance
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007
Auction History
Christie’s Hong-Kong: 29 March 2024
Estimated: HKD 7,800,000 – 12,800,000
HKD 7,308,000 / USD 939,330

“My Infinity Net paintings and Accumulation works had different origins from the European monochrome works. They were about an obsession: infinite repetition. In the 1960s, I said: “I feel as if I were driving on the highways or carried on a conveyor belt without ending until my death. This is like continuing to drink thousands of cups of coffee or eating thousands of feet of macaroni… I am deeply terrified by the obsessions crawling over my body, whether they come within me or from outside. I fluctuate between feelings of reality and unreality.”‘