Is That A Kusama In Your Pocket?

Kusama Infinity Nets the bigger, the earlier the better, unless they’re tiny and from the 2000s. This pocket-sized, 5×7 acrylic and glitter painting from 2000 has been around, the secondary market equivalent of cigarettes in prison. But it still delivers. It just sold a few minutes ago at Sotheby’s in London, after not selling in 2017 in a horrible-sounding, two-artist sale/show with Louise Bourgeois at Sotheby’s S2 Gallery called Traumata, and then selling—untraumatically—three months later. Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Nets, 2002, 6×9 or so, acrylic on linen, sold in Milano in 2016 A few months before that, in November 2016, a similar, 6×9 Infinity Nets from 2002, with a little more facture and 100% less glitter sold at Sotheby’s in Milano. Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Nets, 1999, 9×11 in or so, acrylic on linen, sold at Christie’s Paris in 2024 As dense and loopy as it is, I almost think this 9×11-inch 1999 Infinity Nets might be slightly too big for the category. Though it feels wrong to put…