Dancing Pumpkin

Medium: Screenprint in colors on Verin d’Arches paper
[3 screens, 2 colors, 3 runs]
Year: 1993
Image: 50 x 72.6 cm (19.7 x 28.6 inches)
Sheet: 61×83 cm (24 x 32.7 inches)
Edition: 120
Artist’s Proofs: 12 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 5 PP
Printer: Okabe Tokuzo, Tokyo
Literature: ABE 185
Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979-2017, ABE PUBLISHING LTD, Number 185, Illustrated page 114

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil on lower edge

 

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Auction Results

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Koller Zurich: 26 June 2025
Estimated: CHF 30,000 – 50,000
CHF 37,500 / USD 46,840

YAYOI KUSAMA (Matsumoto 1929–lives and works in Tokyo)
Dancing Pumpkin (Kusama 185), 1993
Color silkscreen on Arches wove paper
Edition: 92/120
Signed lower right in pencil: Yayoi Kusama
Also titled in Japanese lower centre and dated in Arabic numerals: ダンス かぼちゃ 1993

Seoul Auction: 24 October 2023
Estimated: KRW 130,000,000 – 200,000,000
KRW 141,600,000 / USD 105,492

YAYOI KUSAMA
Dancing Pumpkin, 1993
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 111/120 on the recto

Brunk Auctions: 21 April 2023
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 42,000 (Hammer)
USD 51,660

YAYOI KUSAMA
Dancing Pumpkin, 1993
Screenprint on wove paper
Edition: 78/120
Signed lower right “Yayoi Kusama”
Titled in Japanese

Poly Auction Hong-Kong: 13 July 2022
Estimated: HKD 350,000 – 450,000
HKD 480,000 / USD 61,150

YAYOI KUSAMA
Dancing Pumpkin, 1993
Screenprint
Edition: 2/120
Editioned, dated and signed ‘2/120 1993 Yayoi Kusama’
Titled in Japanese (bottom)

Phillips Hong-Kong: 29 November 2021
Estimated: HKD 200,000 – 400,000
HKD 567,000 / USD 72,576

YAYOI KUSAMA
Dancing Pumpkin, 1993
Signed, titled, numbered and dated ‘111/120 “Dancing Pumpkin [in Kanji]” 1993 Yayoi Kusama’
(lower edge)