Yayoi Kusama "Pumpkin (Yellow)"

Yayoi Kusama
Pumpkin (Yellow), 2015
Painted cast resin
4 x 3.15 x 3.25 in

This lacquer-painted resin art object is modeled after one of Kusama’s most famous artworks and most well-known motifs. Yayoi employs the gourd as both an allegory and a form of self-portraiture—in paintings, drawing, sculptures and installations. She is drawn to pumpkins as a muse because of their “charming and winsome form, their generous unpretentiousness and solid spiritual base.” Accompanied by original box.