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Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets (26) For Sale
Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets (26)
Screen print
25 1/4 x 21 7/8 in 64 x 55.5 cm
Edition
Edition of 100
About this work
Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Net prints represent a significant aspect of her artistic practice, characterized by the repetitive and obsessive application of intricate nets or dots covering vast expanses of canvas. These prints, with their meticulously crafted patterns, reflect Kusama's fascination with infinity and her quest to create a sense of boundlessness within the confined space of her artwork. The meticulous repetition of these nets serves not only as a visual exploration but also as a meditative process for the artist, often drawing from her experiences with hallucinations and the concept of obliteration of the self. Through her Infinity Net prints, Kusama creates immersive and mesmerizing visual landscapes that transcend conventional boundaries, inviting viewers into a hypnotic journey through the infinite realms of pattern and perception.
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Auction History
Infinity Nets (WR, YBL, YOR) · Yayoi Kusama · Christie's · 2022-04 · $73,127
Infinity Nets, from Toki no Wasuremono Vol. 3 · Yayoi Kusama · Christie's · 2021-04 · $27,500
Infinity Nets 1958 (Kusama 14) · Yayoi Kusama · SBI Art Auction · 2026-07 · $25,595
Infinity Nets 1958 · Yayoi Kusama · China Guardian · 2023-04 · $21,401
Infinity Nets · Yayoi Kusama · Christie's · 2020-07 · $20,964
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About the Infinity Nets Series
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Nets Prints For Sale
Market Leadership in Kusama's Foundational Series
The Infinity Nets series represents one of the most significant bodies of work in post-war contemporary art, commanding extraordinary attention from institutional and private collectors worldwide. With $561,250 in documented Yayoi Kusama transactions, Guy Hepner maintains authoritative positioning in this critically important market segment. Against the backdrop of renewed market confidence—Art Basel & UBS reports the global art market returned to growth in 2025 following a 2024 valuation of $57.5 billion—Kusama's Infinity Nets continue demonstrating remarkable price appreciation and collector demand.
Recent auction performance confirms the series' enduring market strength. In March 2026, multiple Infinity Nets works achieved GBP 2,839,587 at major international sales, including Infinity Nets (2014), Infinity Nets (YRSEZ) (2017), and Infinity Nets (Orange) (2000). These results build upon the artist's established auction trajectory, exemplified by the landmark $5.1 million achieved for Infinity Nets (1959) at Christie's in 2021. For collectors seeking blue-chip contemporary art with proven market performance, the Infinity Nets series offers compelling acquisition opportunities across multiple price points and mediums.
Series Context: The Origin of Obsession
Yayoi Kusama, born 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, developed the Infinity Nets concept in the late 1950s following her pivotal relocation to New York City. What began as an artistic response to hallucinations experienced since childhood evolved into one of the most recognizable and influential visual vocabularies in contemporary art history. The nets—endless, repetitive loops covering entire canvas surfaces—emerged as Kusama's radical answer to Abstract Expressionism, offering meditative endlessness in contrast to gestural spontaneity.
The series has accompanied Kusama throughout her seven-decade career, evolving in scale, color, and medium while maintaining its essential character. From monumental canvases commanding museum galleries to intimate prints accessible to emerging collectors, the Infinity Nets demonstrate remarkable consistency of vision paired with material versatility. Major retrospectives at Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art have cemented the series within art historical canon, while Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms—conceptual extensions of the nets' infinite philosophy—continue attracting unprecedented public engagement worldwide.
Technical Excellence Across Mediums
The Infinity Nets series encompasses diverse technical approaches, each offering distinct collector value and aesthetic experience.
Acrylic on Canvas
The primary medium for Kusama's monumental Infinity Nets, acrylic paintings represent the series' most significant market category. Works such as Infinity Nets (2014) and Infinity Nets (YRSEZ) (2017) demonstrate Kusama's mature technique: dense, interlocking arcs applied with extraordinary precision across expansive surfaces. The physical labor required—often demanding months of repetitive brushwork—manifests as meditative accumulation, where individual gestures dissolve into unified visual fields. These canvases command premium valuations reflecting their art historical importance and institutional desirability.
Screenprints and Editions
Kusama's print editions extend the Infinity Nets concept into accessible formats without compromising artistic integrity. Works including Infinity Nets (Orange) (2000), Sunlights (1998), Woman (2006), and Infinity Nets (76) (1953-1985) demonstrate the artist's sophisticated understanding of printmaking's unique properties. Screenprints capture the nets' optical intensity while introducing color variations and compositional experiments distinct from painted originals. Madder Colored Cloud (1997) exemplifies Kusama's chromatic exploration within the print medium, translating atmospheric qualities through layered screen printing techniques.
Mixed Media Works
Petals are Soaring into the Air (2012) represents Kusama's technical ambition within editions, combining etching, silkscreen, and embossing on paper. This multi-process approach creates dimensional complexity unavailable through single techniques, with embossed elements generating tactile surfaces that respond dynamically to changing light conditions. Such works bridge the gap between unique paintings and conventional prints, offering collectors distinctive objects with enhanced material presence.
Notable Works Available Through Guy Hepner
The current inventory encompasses significant examples spanning the Infinity Nets series' technical and chronological range. Infinity Nets (YRSEZ) (2017) demonstrates Kusama's continued mastery of the form well into her ninth decade, while Infinity Nets (76) (1953-1985) represents historical engagement with the concept during its foundational period. Sunlights (1998) and Woman (2006) showcase Kusama's ability to integrate the net motif with figurative and symbolic elements, expanding the series' conceptual boundaries while maintaining visual coherence.
Investment Analysis: Sustained Appreciation and Institutional Validation
Kusama's market trajectory reflects extraordinary consistency paired with strategic growth. The $6.7 million achieved for Pumpkin YB (1994) at Sotheby's in 2021 established contemporary benchmarks, while Infinity Nets works have demonstrated parallel appreciation across price categories. The March 2026 results—with multiple works achieving GBP 2,839,587—confirm sustained demand despite broader economic uncertainties.
Several factors underpin continued investment confidence. Kusama's age and continued productivity create natural supply constraints looking forward, while institutional acquisition programs maintain competitive pressure on available inventory. The artist's global recognition—amplified through Infinity Mirror Room exhibitions attracting millions of visitors annually—generates collector interest extending beyond traditional art market participants. Print editions offer strategic entry points, with historical appreciation patterns suggesting significant upside potential as canvas works ascend beyond most private collector budgets.
Acquisition Guidance
Guy Hepner provides comprehensive acquisition services for Infinity Nets works from our New York headquarters. Our documented transaction history and direct market relationships enable access to exceptional examples across available price points. Whether pursuing museum-quality canvases or strategically building print collections, our advisory team offers market intelligence, authentication verification, and transaction support reflecting decades of specialized expertise. Contact Guy Hepner to discuss current availability and acquisition strategies tailored to your collecting objectives.
About Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama Prints For Sale
Yayoi Kusama prints for sale at Guy Hepner Gallery in New York include Infinity Net editions, pumpkin screenprints, dot works, Flower Ball multiples, and the full range of her extraordinary print output — representing one of the most consistently in-demand bodies of work in the contemporary edition market. For collectors seeking Yayoi Kusama art for sale, Guy Hepner at 177 Tenth Avenue, New York offers expert guidance, authenticated works across all her major print series, and access to a market that has demonstrated exceptional sustained strength.
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929, Matsumoto, Japan) is the highest-selling living female artist in the world and one of the most instantly recognisable visual presences in contemporary art — an artist whose dots, nets, pumpkins, and Infinity Mirror Rooms have achieved a cultural ubiquity that coexists, without diminishing, with the genuine psychological intensity from which her work emerged. Kusama began making art as a child as a means of processing the hallucinations she experienced — flowers speaking to her, the self dissolving into fields of pattern and repetition — and the therapeutic impetus has never separated itself from the formal achievement. The work is not illustration of pathology but its transformation into aesthetic proposition.
Kusama received traditional Japanese painting training before moving to New York in 1958, where she became a conspicuous and somewhat isolated figure in an avant-garde largely indifferent to her practice. Her Infinity Net paintings — monumental canvases covered in an unbroken weave of looping marks applied with obsessive labour — anticipated the Minimalist investigation of serial mark-making while remaining intensely personal, each loop a unit in an accumulation too vast to resolve into pattern.
Kusama's Signature Motifs: Dots, Nets, Pumpkins, and Flowers
The visual world Kusama has created across her long career rests on a small number of obsessively repeated motifs:
- Dots — polka dots covering surfaces, objects, environments, and her own body; the dot is Kusama's most fundamental formal unit and the motif most directly connected to her childhood hallucinations. Dot prints span the full arc of her career and remain the most accessible entry point into her edition market.
- Infinity Nets — her first mature breakthrough; the obsessive network of repeating loops that anticipates Minimalism while remaining utterly personal. Net prints and works on paper from the 1960s are among the rarest and most historically significant objects in her output.
- Pumpkins — bronze and fibreglass sculptures of comic gravity and formal authority that began appearing in the 1990s and have become among the most beloved objects in contemporary sculpture. Pumpkin prints and multiples are among the most actively traded works in her edition market.
- Flower Ball — large-scale sphere compositions made of dense, repeating flower motifs; among her most distinctive and immediately recognisable works in print and sculpture form
- Infinity Mirror Room imagery — works referencing or documenting her immersive installation environments; rare and highly sought
Yayoi Kusama Paintings For Sale
Kusama's auction record stands at $7,109,000 for Infinity Nets (TW) at Christie's, with multiple major Net canvases from the late 1950s and 1960s achieving $5,000,000+ at Sotheby's and Christie's. An Infinity Nets canvas from 1959 achieved $5,098,000 at Christie's in November 2021. She has held the record for the highest auction result achieved by a living female artist for many years. Her major paintings — particularly early Net works and large-scale Infinity environments — are held primarily in institutional collections or by committed long-term private collectors and rarely come to market.
Yayoi Kusama Print Editions: What to Know
Her print editions — featuring signature dot and pumpkin imagery — are among the most actively traded in the contemporary edition market, with strong global demand across price points. Kusama has worked with publishers in Japan and internationally to produce editions across all major print media: screenprints, lithographs, woodcuts, and etchings.
Print prices range from $8,000–$15,000 for smaller open-style editions through $50,000–$200,000+ for rare signed limited editions featuring pumpkins, infinity net patterns, or dot works in high demand colourways. Works produced in collaboration with Ota Fine Arts and other authorised publishers carry the strongest provenance.
What to Look For When Buying Yayoi Kusama Art
Motif: Pumpkin works and infinity net prints consistently outperform generic dot compositions. Flower Ball works carry strong demand. Early net works on paper, if available, are among the rarest and most historically significant objects in her output.
Edition size and signature: Small-edition signed prints carry significant premium over open editions. Certificates of authenticity from Ota Fine Arts or the artist's studio are essential for any significant acquisition.
Colourway: Yellow and black pumpkin works (echoing her iconic Naoshima installation) carry premium. Red and white, gold, and silver colourways in dot and net works also command strong demand.
Condition: Kusama's prints are typically produced on quality substrates, but UV protection and stable storage are critical to long-term value preservation.
Provenance: Works with direct gallery provenance from Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, or Zwirner hold value most reliably.
Yayoi Kusama Art For Sale at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York
Kusama's work is held in permanent collections at MoMA, the Whitney Museum, Tate, the Centre Pompidou, the Guggenheim, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Hirshhorn Museum, and The Broad in Los Angeles. A landmark joint retrospective toured Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, the Whitney, and MoMA in 2012. She continues to produce work daily from her studio in Tokyo.
Guy Hepner offers authenticated Yayoi Kusama art for sale with full provenance documentation from our gallery at 177 Tenth Avenue, New York. We provide expert guidance on acquisition, free and confidential valuations for those wishing to sell, and access to a global network of collectors actively seeking her work across all media and price points. Whether you are seeking Yayoi Kusama prints for sale in a specific motif or colourway, or exploring her broader edition output, Guy Hepner is the right starting point.