Early Kusama Works Fetch $15.2 M. at Auction, Nearly Doubling Expectations
about 36 months ago (05/12/2021)
Early Kusama Works Fetch $15.2 M. at Auction, Nearly Doubling Expectations Yayoi Kusama, Mississipi River , 1960. A group of 11 early works by Yayoi Kusama from the late 1950s and early ’60s that have been in private hands for six decades sold on Wednesday for a collective $15.2 million—almost double the pre-sale expectation of $8.8 million—at Bonhams during a postwar and contemporary art sale in New York. The trove consists of three paintings and eight works on paper that Kusama gifted to the late Japanese cardiovascular surgeon Teruo Hirose in exchange for medical care.