At Bonhams in New York: points victory for Yayoi Kusama

From the flow of time: Yayoi Kusama, “Mississippi River”, 1960, oil on canvas, 60.3 by 71.7 centimeters, price with a premium of 3.6 million euros.
Image: Bonhams

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Top results for Yayoi Kusama: Bein Bonhams brought in eleven early works by the artist almost twice the total estimate.

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IA total of 15.2 million dollars – almost twice the total estimate – have recorded eleven early works by Yayoi Kusama at Bonhams in New York. Kusama himself had given the three paintings and eight works on paper to a friend, the doctor Teruo Hirose, in the middle of the last century, and they have remained in his private collection ever since. Bidders from Asia, Europe and the United States competed for the freshly marketed works, none of which were left behind. At the top was an “Untitled” painting from 1965, the concentric rectangles of which are reminiscent of Kusama’s later “Infinity Mirror Rooms”. With the buyer’s premium, the buyer has to pay $ 4.59 million (estimate 2.5 / 3.5 million) for the work. The paintings “Mississippi River” and “Hudson River” from 1960 fulfilled their expectations with a total of 7.6 million dollars; the estimate was six million. The pictures on paper were in great demand: They rose to $ 300,000 to $ 500,000 each, a multiple of the low estimates of $ 60,000 to $ 80,000.

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