Yayoi Kusama: Summer Squash

This curated selection brings together Yayoi Kusama’s most iconic motifs, highlighting the pumpkins and florals that have become defining symbols of the artist’s seven-decade career. Through her instantly recognisable visual language of repeating dots, organic forms, and vivid colour, Kusama transforms familiar subjects from the natural world into meditations on infinity, memory, and the relationship between the individual and the universe.

First appearing in Kusama’s practice in the 1940s, the pumpkin has become one of her most celebrated symbols, representing comfort, nostalgia, and personal mythology. Rendered through her signature polka dots and rhythmic repetition, Kusama’s pumpkins balance playful simplicity with the obsessive mark-making that sits at the centre of her artistic philosophy.

Alongside her pumpkins, Kusama’s floral works continue her lifelong exploration of nature, growth, and infinite expansion. Flowers become surreal and dreamlike forms, transformed through bold patterns and vibrant palettes that reflect the artist’s unique approach to abstraction.

Together, these editions offer collectors an insight into Kusama’s most recognisable imagery, celebrating the themes of repetition, infinity, and transformation that have established her as one of the most influential contemporary artists of our time.