Yayoi Kusama
Watermelon
Estimate: 12.000 - 18.000 GBP
Price realised: 31.800 GBP
Price realised: 31.800 GBP
Description
Yayoi Kusama (born 1929)
Watermelon (Kusama 91)
Screenprint in colours, 1986, on wove paper, signed, dated and numbered 48/75 in pencil (there were also eight artist's proofs), printed by Okabe Tokuzo, the full sheet, in very good condition, framed
Image 460 x 534mm. (18 1/8 x 21in.); Sheet 540 x 617mm. (21 1/4 × 24 1/4in.)
Watermelon (Kusama 91)
Screenprint in colours, 1986, on wove paper, signed, dated and numbered 48/75 in pencil (there were also eight artist's proofs), printed by Okabe Tokuzo, the full sheet, in very good condition, framed
Image 460 x 534mm. (18 1/8 x 21in.); Sheet 540 x 617mm. (21 1/4 × 24 1/4in.)
Upper estimate price exceeded by 77 %.
This artwork by Yayoi Kusama achieved an unexpectedly high price at Bonhams in London in June last year. In the Prints and Multiples auction, the work Watermelon sold for GBP 31,800.00 (€ 36,942.55) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 18,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Yayoi Kusama achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Pumpkin in April this year with an auction result of HKD 30,000,000.00 (€ 30,635,869.57).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 77 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Yayoi Kusama erzielte im Juni letzten Jahres bei Bonhams in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Prints and Multiples wurde die Arbeit Watermelon für GBP 31.800,00 (€ 36.942,55) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 18.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Yayoi Kusama erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Pumpkin im April diesen Jahres mit einem Auktionsergebnis von HKD 30.000.000,00 (€ 30.635.869,57).
Yayoi Kusama - Auction history
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