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Summer Night, 1979Acrylic on paper with signed original backing board, 51 × 64.5 cm (20 × 25 3/4 in.)© Yayoi Kusama. Image reproduced for educational and informational purposes only.
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“I wanted to start a new art movement, to change society with my art.”
– Yayoi Kusama
Summer Night embodies the transition between Kusama’s avant-garde international presence and the deeply introspective body of work that would define her subsequent decades. In works such as this, she shows how personal vision and private ritual could resonate universally, turning intimate materials into a meditation on obsession, infinity, and psychological depth.