PUMPKIN

Medium: Screenprint in colors on Verin d’Arches paper
[3 screens, 2 colors, 3 runs]
Year: 2005
Image: 14×20 cm (5.5 x 7.9 inches)
Sheet: 21×27 cm (8.3 x 10.6 inches)
Edition: 380
Artist’s Proofs: 3 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 2 PP
Hors Commerce: 15 HC
Publisher: ABE PUBLISHING LTD, Tokyo
Printer: Okabe Tokuzo, Tokyo
Literature: ABE 352
ABE Publishing Ltd., Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1979-2017, Tokyo, 2017, Number 352, Illustrated page 200

Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil on lower edge

With the accompanying book All Prints of Yayoi Kusama: 1974-2004 and the original slipcase

“I adore pumpkins. As my spiritual home since childhood, pumpkins bring about poetic peace in my mind. Pumpkins talk to me, giving off an aura of my sacred mental state. They embody a base for the joy of living shared by all humankind on earth. It is for the pumpkins that I keep on going.”

 

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Auction Results

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SBI Art Auction: 25 October 2025
Estimated: JPY 2,500,000 – 3,500,000
JPY 4,830,000 / USD 31,605

YAYOI KUSAMA
PUMPKIN (Kusama 352), 2005
Screenprint
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
HC aside from ED. 380
Printed by Okabe Tokuzo
Published by Abe Publishing Ltd, Tokyo

 iART Auction: 28 September 2025
Estimated: JPY 3,000,000 – 5,000,000
JPY 4,370,000 (Hammer)
JPY 5,091,050 / USD 34,590

YAYOI KUSAMA
PUMPKIN (ABE 352), 2005
Screenprint
Signed, from the edition of 380

Sotheby’s Hong-Kong: 11 December 2024
Estimated: HKD 120,000 – 220,000
HKD 204,000 / USD 26,205

YAYOI KUSAMA (b. 1929)
Pumpkin, 2005
Screenprint
With Specially Bound Edition YAYOI KUSAMA: PRINT WORKS
Signed, titled, dated 2005, and numbered 103/380 (lower edge)

 

Seoul Auction: 19 November 2024
Estimated: KRW 45,000,000 – 80,000,000
KRW 55,460,000 / USD 39,875

YAYOI KUSAMA
Pumpkin, 2005
Polka dot fabric-covered screenprint
Signed, 267/380 (plus 3 artist’s proofs)

Mainichi Auction: 19 October 2024
Estimated: JPY 3,000,000 – 5,000,000
JPY 6,440,000 / USD 43,070

YAYOI KUSAMA
PUMPKIN (ABE 352), 2005
Screenprint
Signed, from the edition of 380

New Art Est-Ouest Auctions: 30 July 2023
Estimated: JPY 3,000,000 – 5,000,000
JPY 7,245,000 / USD 51,325 

YAYOI KUSAMA
PUMPKIN (ABE 352), 2005
Screenprint
Signed, from the edition of 380

Mallet Japan: 27 July 2023
Estimated: JPY 2,000,000 – 3,000,000
JPY 6,000,000 / USD 42,542 (Hammer)

YAYOI KUSAMA
PUMPKIN (ABE 352), 2005
Screenprint
Signed, from the edition of 380

Christie’s New-York: 27 October 2022
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 37,800

YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Pumpkin, 2005
Screen-print in colors, on Arches paper
Signed, titled and dated in pencil, numbered 31/380

Sotheby’s London: 13 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 20,000
GBP 44,100 / USD 50,580

YAYOI KUSAMA (b. 1929)
Pumpkin, 2005
Screen-print on Arches paper, in the artist’s frame
With the accompanying book All Prints of Yayoi Kusama: 1974-2004 and the original slipcase
Signed, titled, dated 2005 and numbered 296/380

Sotheby’s London: 18 August 2022
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 20,000
GBP 44,100 / USD 53,515

YAYOI KUSAMA (b. 1929)
Pumpkin, 2005
Screen-print on paper in artist’s frame
With the accompanying book All Prints of Yayoi Kusama: 1974-2004, lacking the original slipcase
Signed, titled, dated 2005 and numbered 199/380

Christie’s New-York: 19 July 2022
Estimated: USD 18,000 – 25,000
USD 50,400

YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)
Pumpkin, 2005
Screen-print in colors on Arches paper
Signed, titled and dated in pencil, numbered 69/380
Together with the accompanying book All Prints of Yayoi Kusama : 1974-2004
And the original slipcase, in the original artist’s frame

Phillips Hong-Kong: 9 July 2020
Estimated: HKD 70,000 – 90,000
HKD 175,000 / USD 22,500