# Yayoi (1929) Kusama artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/yayoi-1929-kusama/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T08:56:30.413Z
Quality: low confidence, insufficient sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Installation art, Mirrors and suspended LED lighting used in immersive installations

## Portrait

![Yayoi (1929) Kusama](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/20130918Yayoi_Kusama3.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20130918Yayoi_Kusama3.jpg

## About Yayoi (1929) Kusama

The collected evidence identifies Yayoi Kusama as a contemporary artist and supplies documented photographic likenesses from the early 2000s and 2013. It also records installation work built around immersive environments: one documented installation uses a pumpkin subject, while another combines a mirrored interior with suspended LED lighting. These sources offer a limited but coherent picture of an artist working across visual objects, spatial experience, reflection, and light. Collectors may therefore encounter the name in connection with installations and pumpkin-related imagery, although this source pack is not sufficient to establish a complete chronology, movement history, or catalogue of media. The input name includes the year 1929, but no museum, authority file, official biography, or encyclopedia source was collected to verify that as a birth year. Birth details, nationality, movement associations, and other biographical claims should remain unpublished until corroborated by stronger institutional sources.

## Common works and media

The source pack documents immersive installation art, including a pumpkin-centered installation and a mirrored environment using suspended LED lights. It does not contain enough artist-specific auction evidence to determine which paintings, prints, sculptures, editions, drawings, or other objects appear most often on the secondary market. Any submitted work should therefore be classified from its own medium, construction, dimensions, markings, edition information, provenance, and condition.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected Appraisily market page currently contains no matched or priced auction records and provides no usable sale-date range. It therefore cannot support a price estimate, market trend, liquidity claim, or artist-specific auction-category profile. For appraisal work, comparisons should be limited to genuinely similar objects and should consider medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration, signature or inscriptions, edition information, provenance, exhibition and catalogue history, attribution confidence, and subject matter. Realized prices should also be checked for differences in fees and reporting conventions. Authentication findings, condition issues, incomplete auction feeds, and private transactions can materially change the relevance of any public comparison. A qualified appraisal requires object-level evidence rather than reliance on a name-level median.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This source pack has useful likeness and installation evidence but no matched priced records or institution-grade biography.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/yayoi-1929-kusama/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20130918Yayoi_Kusama3.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yayoi_Kusama_circa_2004.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kusama_Yayoi_The_Spirits_of_the_Pumpkins_Descended_into_the_Heavens.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enjambre_de_Luci%C3%A9rnagas_creaci%C3%B3n_de_Yayoi_Kusama_05.jpg