Butterfly
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Verin d’Arches paper
[2 screens, 2 colors, 2 runs]
Year: 1982
Size: 26.8 x 32.1 cm (10.6 x 12.6 inches)
Edition: 50
Artist’s Proofs: 5 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 3 PP
Publisher: Gendai-Hanga Center, Tokyo
Printer: Students of the Art School (BIGAKKOU) supervised by Okabe Tokuzo
Literature: ABE 18
ABE Publishing Ltd., Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1979-2017, Tokyo, 2017, plate no. 18, page 21
Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil on lower edge
Auction Results
SBI Art Auction: 1 February 2020
Estimated: JPY 900,000 – 1,400,000
JPY 1,069,500 / USD 9,820
YAYOI KUSAMA
Butterfly (Kusama 18), 1982
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered from the edition of 50
Phillips New-York: 26 September 2018
Estimated: USD 7,000 – 10,000
USD 15,000
YAYOI KUSAMA
Butterfly, 1982
Screen-print
Signed, titled, numbered and dated “P.P. Butterfly [in Japanese] 1982 Yayoi Kusama” lower edge
A printer’s proof from an edition of 50 plus 5 artist’s proofs and 3 printer’s proofs
SBI Art Auction: 27 October 2018
Estimated: JPY 1,000,000 – 1,500,000
JPY 1,380,500 / USD 12,332
YAYOI KUSAMA
Butterfly (Kusama 18), 1982
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered from the edition of 50