Flowers--Overcoat

Object Details

Artist

Yayoi Kusama, Japanese, b. Matsumoto City, 1929

Provenance

The artist

[Gallery Mickery, Loenersloot, The Netherlands, 1968]

[Private collection, Amsterdam]

Blumarts, Inc., New York, to 2 December 1998

Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest and Purchase Funds, 1998

Exhibition History

[GALERIE MICKERY, Loenersloot, The Netherlands. "Exhibition of works by Yayoi Kusama from 1963 to 1965," 9 June-7 July 1968.]

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Gyroscope: Fall 2005," 3 November 2005-8 January 2006, no cat.

MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA, Madrid. "Yayoi Kusama Retrospective," 10 May-18 September 2011. TOUR: CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, 19 October-9 January 2012; TATE MODERN, London, 1 February-20 May; WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, 12 July-30 September.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913-Present," 18 April-8 September 2013, no cat.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors," 23 February-14 May 2017, cat.

Published References

UNSIGNED. "Gyroscope: Fall 2005," (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2005), fig. 3. [exhibition brochure]

AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 206, p. 228.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest and Purchase Funds, 1998

1964

Accession Number

98.38

Type

Sculpture

Medium

Cloth overcoat, polyethylene flowers, metallic spray paint, plastic buttons, and wood hanger

Dimensions

50 3/4 x 28 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (128.9 x 73.3 x 14.6 cm)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

Dada/Fluxus

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_98.38

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py241e35b90-6b69-468f-9306-09ade97cec53