Yayoi Kusama Flower For Sale

About this work

Kusama's natural imagery — flowers, fruit, plants — applies her all-over dot and pattern vocabulary to the organic world, transforming conventional still-life subjects into vehicles for her distinctive visual obsession. The results are images that maintain the identity of their subjects while transcending botanical observation, each fruit or flower a world of proliferating marks that reflects Kusama's inner landscape rather than simply the outer world. These works demonstrate the breadth of Kusama's practice and her capacity to find new subjects for an approach to mark-making that remains consistent across five decades of production.