Yayoi Kusama // Black Lizards, 1989

  • Yayoi Kusama, Lizards, 1989. Screenprint, 45.5 × 53 cm, featuring stylised reptilian forms combined with Kusama’s distinctive use of bold colour and repetitive pattern.
    Lizards, 1989
    Screenprint, 45.5 × 53 cm (17 9/10 × 20 9/10 in.)
    © Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only. 
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    Yayoi Kusama’s Lizards (1989) is a screenprint measuring 45.5 × 53 cm, created at a moment when the artist was expanding her graphic works with increasingly bold compositions. The image presents lizard forms rendered with rhythmic repetition, drawing on Kusama’s ability to transform natural subjects into patterns that appear both decorative and unsettling. The work reflects her fascination with organic life, while at the same time abstracting it into a field of obsessive imagery.
     
    In Lizards, the creatures are not simply representations of the natural world but symbols within Kusama’s wider visual language. Their arrangement across the surface suggests endless proliferation, echoing her themes of infinity and self-obliteration. The repetition of form creates a hypnotic rhythm, where individual figures dissolve into a collective pattern that seems to extend beyond the edges of the print.
     
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  • “I have always been interested in infinity, in the endless repetition of life.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    As with many of her editioned works, Lizards demonstrates Kusama’s skill in distilling her monumental artistic ideas into a smaller, accessible format. The print bridges her interest in biomorphic shapes, repetition, and psychological depth, encapsulating her ability to transform even the most familiar natural forms into expressions of obsession and infinity.