Yayoi Kusama Originals // 1970 - 1979

Yayoi Kusama, Coffee Cup, 1979.
Acrylic on canvas, 41 × 31.8 cm.
Signed, titled in Japanese, and dated on the reverse.
© Yayoi Kusama.

After leaving New York at the end of the 1960s, Kusama returned to Japan, where her practice shifted into a more introspective phase. During the 1970s, she began working from a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo, continuing to create with remarkable discipline. Her original works from this period often carry a quieter intensity, reflecting her personal struggles while maintaining the repetition and biomorphic imagery that had defined her earlier career.

Paintings and works on paper became central, filled with organic shapes, nets, and dots that conveyed both psychological depth and meditative calm.
1980s
ORIGINALS
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Untitled, 1970