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Pumpkin, 1980Acrylic, graphite and fabric collage on canvas, 130.5 × 162.6 cm (51 3/8 × 64 in.)© Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
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“I love pumpkins because of their humorous form, warm feeling, and a human-like quality.”
– Yayoi Kusama
This Pumpkin not only embodies Kusama’s obsessive repetition and rhythmic surface patterning, but also demonstrates how her chosen motifs could serve as both intimate symbols and widely recognisable emblems of her practice.