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A fine, dense marigold-yellow net weaves around dark dots in this horizontal, abstract painting. Most of the painting is yellow, and the spots are irregularly shaped, they vary in size, and they are loosely arranged in twelve columns. The columns bleed into each other to create undulating waves and swirls across the canvas.

Yayoi Kusama

Infinity Nets Yellow, 1960

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 240 x 294.6 cm (94 1/2 x 116 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Collectors Committee

Accession Number

2002.37.1

Artists / Makers

Kusama Yayoi (artist) Japanese, born 1929

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Inscription

center right reverse: Yayoi / Kusama / 1960; upper center reverse: "YELLOW NET"; lower right reverse, crossed out: NO, / Yellow / and blak / black

Provenance

Purchased 1960 by Frank Stella [born 1936], New York; purchased 11 April 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Anonymous

Exhibition History

1989: Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, 1989-1990, no. 18, repro., as Yellow Net.

1993: XLV Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1993, no. 2, repro., representing Japan, as Yellow Net.

1995: Maux Faux, Ronald Feldman Fine Art, New York, 1995, no cat.

1998: Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1998-1999, no. 6, repro.

2011: Yayoi Kusama, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2011-2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2014: Make it New: Abstract Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2014, no. 16, repro.

2015: Yayoi Kusama: In Infinity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Helsinki Art Museum, 2015-2017, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2017: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2017, pl. 28.