Silver Nets (EOKI), 2015
Acrylic on canvas
162.2×130.5 cm (63.9×51.4 inches)
Signed, titled and dated ‘EOKI SILVER NETS YAYOI KUSAMA 2011’ on the reverse

 

Provenance
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

 

Phillips London: 15 October 2021
GBP 1,837,500 / USD 2,527,858

Source: Phillips
Yayoi Kusama – 20th Century & Contem… Lot 23 October 2021 | Phillips

 

In its endlessly repeating knots of shimmering silver covering a barely discernible black ground reconfigured by the eye into a vibrating expanse of polka dots, Yayoi Kusama’s Silver-Nets (EOKI) is a particularly dynamic example of the artist’s highly significant Infinity Nets series. Evoking at once the molecular and the cosmic, the expansively infinite and deeply intimate, Kusuma first embarked on her series of vast nets shortly after her move to New York in 1958, when Abstract Expressionism was at its zenith. In her blending of seriality with modes of all-over painting Kusama sought not only to disrupt distinctions between figure and ground, but to obliterate the nature of canvas completely, allowing it to merge with herself, the room and ultimately, the entire universe.