Infinity Nets (2BD), 2004
Acrylic on canvas
116.7×91 cm (45.9×35.8 inches)
Signed and titled in English and dated 2004 on the reverse

Provenance
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Cellar Gallery, Tokyo
Private Asian Collection
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 5 April 2015
HKD 2,240,000 / USD 288,950

Source: Sotheby’s
(#832) Kusama Yayoi Infinity Nets (2BD) (sothebys.com)

It has been fifty years since Kusama Yayoi travelled to New York at the end of her twenties, at a time when it was entirely inconceivable that the young, unassuming artist would become one of the most influential vanguards of contemporary art. Five decades later, Kusama has become the most eminent female Japanese artist, creating an oeuvre that stems across various styles, shifting from minimalism to pop. Painted in the mid-2000s, the current Infinity Nets can be considered exceptional. Featuring a rare but auspicious color palette of gold and red, the work showcases a crucial transition in her aesthetics during the later stage of the series. The current lot is also a distillation of the artist’s mental-scape. Having experienced serious hallucinations since she was young, the organic pattern created with a simple movement of the wrist is essentially a meditative channel for the artist to transcend the plague of ongoing hallucinations to the real world. It is also a crucial foundation upon which the artist extends her later practice beyond the canvas.