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Flowers--Overcoat

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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, plastic flowers, metallic paint, 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
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