Yayoi Kusama The Endless Life Of A Human Being 2010 Offset Print, Square Sheet About 41 cm
Yayoi Kusama The Endless Life Of A Human Being 2010 Offset Print, Square Sheet About 41 cm
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A late song in colour
For the wall that wants the energy of the last great series.
Best for: Contemporary art walls and Kusama collections
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No conspicuous marks or stains are recorded. Faint fold marks are recorded near the edges. A faint tape trace is recorded on the back.
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An unframed square offset print after the 2010 painting The Endless Life Of A Human Being.
The Piece
Cells, eyes and dotted bands in violet, green, yellow and red swarm across a white field inside a toothed red border. The sheet is square, of the size known in Japan as number six, about 41 cm to a side, and is offered without a frame.
My Eternal Soul
In 2009, at the age of eighty, Yayoi Kusama began the largest group of paintings of her life. Working flat on a table in her Tokyo studio, she filled square canvas after canvas with eyes, profiles, dots and saw toothed borders in unmixed colour, giving each a long, lyrical title. The series passed five hundred works and was shown at the National Art Center, Tokyo in 2017. Offset prints after individual paintings were issued in Japan and brought the imagery to a wider public; they are collected today as records of that late flowering.
Details
- Artist: Yayoi Kusama
- Title: The Endless Life Of A Human Being
- Year of the painting: 2010
- Medium: Offset print on paper
- Sheet: About 41 x 41 cm (16 x 16 in)
- Frame: None
Sizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.
Condition
- No conspicuous marks or stains are noted.
- Faint fold marks are present near the edges. A faint tape trace is present on the back.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade AB (clean, no conspicuous marks) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
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It is a printed reproduction, not a hand signed or numbered edition. Examined and photographed in Japan before dispatch.
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