Yayoi Kusama — Flowers (2)

Created in 1985, Yayoi Kusama’s Flowers (2) belongs to a pivotal decade in the artist’s graphic production, when her unmistakable visual grammar—repetition, flat chromatic fields, and rhythmic patterning—was distilled into museum-grade editions sought after by serious collectors. A defining figure of the postwar avant-garde, Kusama (b. 1929) developed a singular language that moved through the energy of 1960s New York while remaining radically personal; today her work anchors major international collections and institutions including MoMA, Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou.

In this silkscreen, the flower is not treated as a simple emblem of nature, but as a conceptual device: an image charged with interiority, obsession, and perceptual shift, rendered with hypnotic clarity through modular repetition. The print is from a limited edition of 100 and is signed, dated, and numbered on the front—core attributes that support long-term collectibility and liquidity within the market for Kusama’s editions. Demand for historic prints, particularly from the 1980s, remains consistently visible across Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips; notably, Kusama’s print auction record reached €819,000 at Sotheby’s in 2022, underscoring the strength of the category and the investment awareness surrounding authenticated works on paper by the artist. For collectors focused on iconic imagery with institutional resonance and durable secondary-market interest, Flowers (2) offers a concise, highly recognizable entry into Kusama’s most enduring themes.