Yayoi Kusama // Summer Flowers , 1990

  • Yayoi Kusama, Summer Flower, 1990. Screenprint on paper, 45.2 × 52.8 cm, edition of 100. Features Kusama’s vibrant floral imagery with bold patterning and colour contrasts characteristic of her late 20th-century prints.
    Summer Flower, 1990
    Screenprint on paper, 45.2 × 52.8 cm (17 4/5 × 20 4/5 in.), Edition of 100
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    Yayoi Kusama’s Summer Flower (1990) is a screenprint on paper measuring 45.2 × 52.8 cm, produced in an edition of 100. The work showcases Kusama’s enduring fascination with organic motifs, here expressed through the radiant image of a flower. Rendered with bold outlines and vibrant colour, the subject is transformed into a surreal emblem of growth, vitality, and transformation.

     

    In this print, the flower becomes more than a simple representation of nature. Kusama distils her form into rhythmic patterns and stylised detail, reflecting her lifelong interest in repetition and the cycles of life. The composition is both playful and intense, echoing her ability to turn natural forms into symbols of psychological depth and infinite variation.

     

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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, Summer Flower demonstrates Kusama’s talent for translating her larger themes into the medium of print. The result is an image that resonates with her wider practice, linking the fragility of natural beauty with her vision of infinity and self-obliteration.