Yayoi Kusama Lemon Squash (4) For Sale

About this work

Yayoi Kusama stands as one of the most influential and commercially significant artists of the postwar era, her work commanding extraordinary prices at auction while simultaneously reaching audiences through major institutional retrospectives worldwide. Now in her tenth decade, Kusama continues to produce work from her Tokyo studio, though pieces from her earlier periods remain particularly sought after by collectors. Lemon Squash (4) from 1999 exemplifies Kusama's enduring engagement with organic forms and her signature polka-dot motifs. The screenprint renders a simple citrus fruit through her distinctive visual language, transforming the mundane into something hallucinatory and obsessive. The incorporation of lamé adds a tactile, shimmering quality that elevates the work beyond traditional printmaking, reflecting Kusama's career-long interest in materials that activate visual perception. This interplay between flat graphic imagery and reflective surface creates a push-pull effect characteristic of her broader practice. The late 1990s represented a period of renewed international attention for Kusama, following decades of prolific output that had seen her move between painting, soft sculpture, installation, and works on paper. Her prints from this era distill the maximalist intensity of her immersive environments into intimate, collectible formats. Lemon Squash belongs to a body of work exploring fruit and vegetable subjects, connecting to her longstanding meditation on nature, infinity, and repetition. From an edition of sixty, this work offers accessibility to Kusama's practice at a moment when her primary market pieces and unique works have become increasingly difficult to acquire. For acquisition inquiries, please contact Guy Hepner.