
Fauna
2 works

Nets Infinity, 1997
Acrylic on canvas
20 7/8 x 17 3/4 in ; 53 x 45 cm
Yayoi Kusama stands as one of the most consequential living artists of our time, commanding exceptional presence across both institutional and commercial spheres. Her works are held in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The secondary market for Kusama's paintings has demonstrated remarkable strength, with her Infinity Nets series consistently achieving significant results at auction, affirming her position as one of the highest-selling female artists in history. Nets Infinity from 1997 exemplifies Kusama's decades-long meditation on infinity through the deceptively simple motif of interlocking loops. Executed in acrylic on canvas, the work presents a densely woven field of arched forms that extend to the edges of the composition, suggesting a pattern without beginning or end. The repetitive gesture, applied with characteristic precision and obsessive dedication, creates an optical surface that oscillates between flatness and depth. This particular period of the mid-1990s represents a significant moment in Kusama's career, as she returned to painting with renewed focus following her voluntary admission to a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo in 1977, from which she has continued to work prolifically. The intimate scale of this canvas, measuring just over fifty centimeters in height, invites close contemplation and reveals the subtle variations within Kusama's systematic approach, where the hand of the artist remains visible despite the apparent uniformity of the net motif. For acquisition inquiries regarding this work by Yayoi Kusama, please contact Guy Hepner.
Price on Application

Nets Infinity · Yayoi Kusama · Sotheby's · 2023-11 · $127,000

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


Yayoi Kusama
Eyes Flying in the Sky
2006

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets
2014

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets (26)

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets (76)
1953-1985

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets (Black)
1963

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets (GKT)
2015

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets (Orange)
2000

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets (YRSEZ)
2017

Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Nets 1989

Yayoi Kusama
Madder Colored Cloud
1997

Yayoi Kusama
Petals are Soaring into the Air
2012

Yayoi Kusama
Rain in the Evening Glow
1992

Yayoi Kusama
Sunlights
1998

Yayoi Kusama
Woman
2006
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.
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). 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.
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.
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.
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.
Yayoi Kusama has built one of the most instantly recognisable bodies of work in contemporary art through her sustained investigation of pattern, repetition, and self-obliteration, developed across painting, sculpture, installation, and print media over more than seven decades. Her recurring motifs — polka dots, net patterns, and later the pumpkin — function as a personal visual vocabulary rooted in hallucinatory visual experiences she has described since childhood, transformed through disciplined repetition into a body of work of extraordinary scale and consistency.
Kusama's work is held in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide, and her Infinity Mirror Room installations have drawn record attendance at institutions internationally, establishing her as one of the most widely recognised and best-selling living artists.

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.
The visual world Kusama has created across her long career rests on a small number of obsessively repeated motifs:
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.
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.
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.
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.