Kusama Yellow
1960s Contemporary Sculptures
Nylon
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon
1960s Abstract Prints and Multiples
Nylon, Screen
2010s Mixed Media
Glass, Resin
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Nylon, Polyester
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Nylon, Polyester
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon
1960s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Nylon, Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Nylon
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Sculptures
Nylon, Screen
1960s Abstract Sculptures
Fabric, Screen
2010s More Art
Fabric
2010s Pop Art Abstract Paintings
Resin
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Resin
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Nylon, Polyester
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Nylon, Polyester
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Nylon, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
2010s Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Still-life Sculptures
Resin
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Resin
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin, Paint
2010s Pop Art More Art
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
1960s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Resin
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Nylon, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures
Resin, Lacquer, Paint
2010s Figurative Sculptures
Polyester, Nylon
2010s Conceptual More Art
Wood, Maple
2010s Conceptual More Art
Wood, Maple, Screen
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
1960s Pop Art Abstract Sculptures
Resin
2010s Pop Art More Art
Resin, Lacquer, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Ceramic
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Wallets
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Tote Bags
2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures
Resin
1980s Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Pouches and Wristlets
21st Century and Contemporary Pouches and Wristlets
2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Resin, Paint
2010s French Tote Bags
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Cropped Jackets
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Plexiglass, Color
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern Clip-on Earrings
18k Gold, Gold Plate, Vermeil, Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Maple, Paint
2010s Asian Ceramics
Resin, Paint
2010s More Art
Resin
- 1
Kusama Yellow For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Kusama Yellow?
Yayoi Kusama for sale on 1stDibs
Widely inspirational and innovative artist Yayoi Kusama has a body of work that is exceptionally varied, ranging from graphic prints and paintings to polka-dot pumpkin sculptures, hypnotic collages, large-scale installations and fashion design.
Even if you don’t know her name, you’ve likely experienced Kusama’s art — or have seen it on Instagram. Her soft sculptures and dazzling “Infinity Mirrors” are the stuff of selfie-takers’ dreams, but Kusama’s impressive decades-long career certainly holds far more cachet than it does fodder for today’s aspiring social-media influencers.
Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, Kusama has worked with her signature polka dots since the age of 10, when she began to experience vivid hallucinations and claimed that patterns and dots were moving around her, swallowing up everything in view. She started to incorporate them into her paintings as a child. Kusama saw circular forms and nets on every surface and became especially fascinated with the pebbles that lined the bottom of the creek near her childhood home. Her family was sternly opposed to her art and her mother physically abused Kusama and discouraged her at a very early age. She has suffered psychological turmoil her whole life and is vocal about her mental illness. Today, Kusama is a voluntary resident at a psychiatric facility in Tokyo, and she calls her work “art medicine.”
At the Kyoto School of Arts and Crafts, Kusama trained in Nihonga, a traditional style of Japanese painting that originated during the Meiji period. On advice she solicited from painter Georgia O'Keeffe, a pioneer of modernism in America whom she greatly admired, she subsequently moved to New York City in 1958. There, Kusama flourished, creating prescient sculptures and large-scale monochrome paintings that bridged current styles with minimalism, which hadn’t yet achieved any kind of prominence as an art movement. She pushed boundaries with her “Accumulations” series, which saw her transforming found furniture pieces into sexualized objects, as well as with an avant-garde staging of theatrical orgies on the street — both stemming from her anxieties about sex as well as an endeavor to make a feminist statement about patriarchal authority and sexism.
Kusama was captivated by Surrealists as well as the Abstract Expressionists and greatly influenced the Pop artists who followed, befriending such icons as Donald Judd — who called her work “the best paintings being done” — and Andy Warhol, with whom she exhibited and later accused of stealing her ideas. Kusama moved with ease through artistic circles and made a point to draw attention to her “otherness” as a Japanese woman by wearing kimonos to her openings.
In 2021, Kusama brought her floral and vegetal sculptures to the New York Botanical Garden and her works can be found in the collections of many of the world’s top museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. She famously collaborated with Louis Vuitton in 2012, and she created a 34-foot-tall balloon for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan in 2019, becoming the first female artist to design a work for the event. In addition to her visual artwork, Kusama is a writer, publishing poetry, novels and an autobiography.
Find a collection of Yayoi Kusama art on 1stDibs.