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Her early years Yayoi Kusama was born in 1929, the youngest daughter of family from the mountainous region of Matsumoto in central Japan. Kusama's family; Yayoi is second from the right Courtesy Yayoi Kusama Studio, Inc Her family made their living from the cultivation of plant seeds. There is still a plant nursery on the site of Kusama’s childhood home. She had a conventional upbringing, and when Kusama began to express enthusiasm in making art, her family were not wholly supportive. Her mother in particular discouraged her young daughter’s dreams of becoming a professional artist, tryin...

Rare unseen early works by Yayoi Kusama in single-owner sale at Bonhams New York Yayoi Kusama, Mississippi River, 1960. Photo: Bonhams. NEW YORK, NY .- Some of the earliest recognized works by Yayoi Kusama – which have never been exhibited in public – will be offered in a special single-owner collection sale at Bonhams New York on Wednesday, May 12. The sale, Kusama: The Collection of the late Dr Teruo Hirose, comprises three paintings and eight works on paper, gifted by Kusuma herself to Dr Hirose, her lifelong friend and doctor whom she consulted in her early years in New York in the 1960...

Heather Phillipson To Create Next Tate Britain Commission Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) will be the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. To be unveiled when the museum reopens, this major commission will be the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain. Her work tackles pressing contemporary issues in singular and remarkable ways – Alex Farquharson Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipson’s expansive multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry ...

Infinity Net motif. Both were created in 1960, and offered each with an estimate of $3,000,000 – 5,000,000. These early works are exceptionally rare due to Kusama's use of the colour red - almost all her other works of this period are white. The third painting in the collection, Untitled, is a very early example of Kusama combining vibrant colours and the scale of the work lends an immersive quality, something that foreshadows the artist's later work such as her Infinity Rooms. The eight works on paper, executed by Kusama before she arrived in the United States in 1957, are corner stone...