Artist
Yayoi Kusama
Japanese contemporary artist
Yayoi Kusama has worked for more than seventy years around a single idea: infinite repetition. The polka dot, the net and the mirrored room all come from the same source — hallucinatory patterns she has described seeing since childhood — and she has pursued them with a discipline few artists of any generation have matched.
Born in Matsumoto in 1929, she moved to New York in 1958 and became a central figure in the city's avant-garde before returning to Japan in 1973. Her exhibitions now draw some of the largest audiences of any living artist, and her market has followed, placing her consistently among the most traded contemporary names worldwide.
The pumpkin is her most personal motif. She has called it a form of self-portrait — unpretentious, generous in shape, and endlessly patient under the dot. The prints of 2000, including Citrouille, remain the most sought-after expression of the subject on paper.
Lemon Squash belongs to a smaller group of still-life prints from the same period, where saturated colour and dense mosaic grounds give an everyday object the same charged intensity as her larger installations.
Causon Daniels holds signed prints from both series. Provenance, edition and condition details are provided on enquiry; price on application.
