Infinity Nets Yellow

1960

Kusama Yayoi

Artist, Japanese, born 1929

A fine, dense marigold-yellow net weaves around dark dots in this horizontal, abstract painting. Most of the painting is yellow, and the spots are irregularly shaped, they vary in size, and they are loosely arranged in twelve columns. The columns bleed into each other to create undulating waves and swirls across the canvas.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1960 by Frank Stella [born 1936], New York; purchased 11 April 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1989

  • Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, 1989-1990, no. 18, repro., as Yellow Net.

1993

  • XLV Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1993, no. 2, repro., representing Japan, as Yellow Net.

1995

  • Maux Faux, Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York, 1995, no cat.

1998

  • Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1998-1999, no. 6, repro.

2011

  • Yayoi Kusama, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2011-2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2014

  • Make it New: Abstract Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2014, no. 16, repro.

2015

  • Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Helsinki Art Museum, 2015-2017, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2017

  • Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2017, pl. 28.

Inscriptions

center right reverse: Yayoi / Kusama / 1960; upper center reverse: "YELLOW NET"; lower right reverse, crossed out: NO, / Yellow / and blak / black

Wikidata ID

Q20195473

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