Lot  116 Ravenel Spring Auction 2019 Taipei

Ravenel Spring Auction 2019 Taipei

The Waves of Midsummer

Yayoi KUSAMA (Japanese, 1929)

1988

Acrylic on canvas

45.5 x 38 cm

Estimate

TWD 7,000,000-9,000,000

HKD 1,786,000-2,296,000

USD 228,000-293,200

CNY 1,535,000-1,974,000

Sold Price

TWD 7,200,000

HKD 1,786,600

USD 227,848

CNY 1,578,947


Signature

Signed Yayoi Kusama, dated 1988 and titled The Wave of Midsummer in Japanese on the reverse
This painting is to be sold with a registration card issued by Yayoi Kusama Studio.

+ OVERVIEW

The origin of the infinite network of creations stems not only from the mental illness that has plagued Yayoi Kusama for many years, but was also inspired from a concept that the artist saw the Pacific Ocean on the flight when she traveled to New York, and then fluctuated and expanded the sea network. From the mind to the canvas: this is also the reason why we can see a lot of paintings in Japanese kanji "wave" (ie water surface) in her works today. This piece was created by Kusama Yayoi in 1988, "The Wave of Midsummer", which is comprised entirely of the most popular colors of the artist - red and black, and is used as a memory for the midsummer ocean. If we compare the colors of the hot and the hot to the midsummer, the dense black lines of the full picture represent the surface of the ocean which is turbulent due to the tides. An "unlimited net" composed of black thin lines covers the black tide. The layered fine composition brings not only a multi-level visual experience to the picture, but the overlapping ripples are even more awe-inspiring. The moment this thought rises in the brain, it is like returning to the era when the artist was exposed to the sun – the wave of the midsummer.
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Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Ravenel Spring Auction 2019 Taipei

Sunday, June 2, 2019, 2:00pm