Yayoi Kusama
Japanese · 1929–2026 · Painter, Sculptor
Yayoi Kusama was a Japanese artist who worked primarily in sculpture and installation. She was also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and… (Wikipedia)
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PumpkinRavenel · NT$198,560,000≈ $6,278,467≈ £4,974,225≈ €5,630,407Sign up to see
Pumpkin(B)Ravenel · NT$51,840,000≈ $1,757,894≈ £1,390,849≈ €1,538,235Sign up to see
The Sea in the Evening GlowRavenel · NT$51,840,000≈ $1,698,278≈ £1,312,933≈ €1,546,420Sign up to see
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Yayoi Kusama was a Japanese artist who worked primarily in sculpture and installation. She was also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work was based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She was acknowledged as one of the most important artists to have come out of Japan, and was one of the world's top-selling female artists and ranked #19 in Sotheby's 2023 list of the top 50 artists. Her work influenced her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
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Also known as Kusama Yayoi, Yayoi Nusama
Artist record compiled from: auction results, Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), National Gallery of Art open data (CC0), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), Tate collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.