Cosmic Kusama offered at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Sale in London
(Artdaily.org)

Yayoi Kusama’s No A.A., from the collection of ICA co-founder Sir Herbert Read, is being offered for the first time at auction at Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary sale on 7 March 2018 at the New Bond Street saleroom. The work is estimated at £250,000-350,000. Ralph Taylor, Global Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art said: ‘Yayoi Kusama is arguably the most important living female artist in the world and her work is highly prized by collectors and institutions alike. This mesmerising painting was executed during Kusama’s first year in the West and, when combined with the impeccable provenance and the fact that this is the first time it has ever been offered for sale, this must surely be considered one of the artist’s most significant early works ever to be offered at auction.’ Born in 1929 in Matsumato City, Japan, Kusama studied at the Kyoto Municipal