Yayoi Kusama Prints // 1970s

  • Yayoi Kusama, Going to the Field with Shoes On, 1979. Screenprint, 54 × 69 cm, edition of 100. Features Kusama’s bold graphic composition with patterned forms, blending everyday imagery with her signature repetition and surreal vision.
    Going to the Field with Shoes On, 1979
    Screenprint, 54 × 69 × 0.5 cm (21 3/10 × 27 1/5 × 1/5 in.), Edition of 100
    © Yayoi Kusama. 
    During the 1970s and 1980s, Yayoi Kusama produced relatively few prints compared to later decades, making works from this period especially rare. Having returned to Japan in 1973 after more than a decade in New York, Kusama shifted her focus towards writing, sculpture, and smaller-scale artworks, while continuing to explore the themes that defined her career: repetition, infinity, and psychological depth.
     
    Her prints from these decades often draw on natural forms, including flowers, butterflies, and domestic objects, reimagined through her bold use of line and rhythm. These works distil her unique vision into intimate formats, bridging her immersive installations and her personal reflections. Though not as prolific in printmaking during this era, the works she did create offer important insight into the evolution of her practice as she transitioned into a new phase of her career.
     
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  • “I have always been interested in infinity, in the endless repetition of life.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    The 1980s and 1990s marked a period of renewal for Yayoi Kusama, as she expanded her practice with bold new paintings, sculptures, and editioned prints. Returning to motifs of flowers, pumpkins, and biomorphic forms, she infused her work with vibrant colour and rhythmic repetition, reflecting both personal memory and universal themes of infinity. These decades laid the foundation for her later international acclaim, as her distinctive visual language reached wider audiences through highly collectable prints.

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