Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession 2019 Skateboard Deck, Screen Print on Canadian Maple, Yellow and Black, Sealed
Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession 2019 Skateboard Deck, Screen Print on Canadian Maple, Yellow and Black, Sealed
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Dots Without End
The deck turns Kusama’s lifelong motif into a long, narrow field where the dots seem to run off the edges. Hung on a wall it reads as a painting in miniature. It is a lively entry point to collecting her work.
Best for: Kusama collectors and lovers of artist-designed objects
Condition notes
Described as new and sealed. Photographs show the deck in its wrap with no visible marks.
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Yayoi Kusama’s Dots Obsession carried onto the curve of a skateboard: black dots of every size swarming a deck of sunflower yellow, still sealed in its wrap.
The Piece
Kusama has painted dots since her childhood in Matsumoto, and her yellow pumpkins and dot-covered rooms are among the most recognisable images in contemporary art. Here the pattern is screen printed across a full-size deck, the dots crowding, overlapping and spilling over the nose and tail so that the object seems to dissolve into the field, exactly the effect Kusama has chased for seven decades.
The deck is described as a 2019 edition produced for The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the product card in the photographs reads Skateboard Single, Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, made in Canada of 7-ply maple wood. It is made to hang rather than to ride: a wall mount is included and no wheels or trucks are fitted.
Details
- Artist: Yayoi Kusama
- Title: Dots Obsession
- Year: 2019, as described
- Medium: Screen print on seven-ply Canadian maple
- Edition: Described as a limited edition; unnumbered
- Signature: Unsigned; printed design
- Size: 80 x 20 x 1.3 cm (31.5 x 7.9 x 0.5 in)
- Frame: None; wall mount included
- Documentation: Offered with a MoMA certificate card, as described; product card shown
- Condition: Described as new and sealed
Size as stated; please allow a gentle margin of about 1 cm (0.4 in).
Condition
- Described as new, still sealed in its wrap and stored privately.
- The photographs show a clean deck under the wrap; ask the Desk for further views.
Condition grade S (unused) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Offered as a Yayoi Kusama Dots Obsession deck with the documentation described; the printed design is not hand-signed. Hang it out of direct sun and dust with a soft dry cloth.
Delivery from Japan
Because of its size, this piece travels flat in a rigid made-to-measure case, never rolled; the Desk compares EMS, FedEx and air freight, and the shipping charge is quoted and agreed with you before purchase. Duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. Every sale is final; please ask anything you wish to know before you buy, and see our published policy.
Considered offers are welcome through Send an Offer, and each one is reviewed personally. Continue with the Yayoi Kusama collection or read Yayoi Kusama: life, work and collecting.
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