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Rare unseen early works by Yayoi Kusama in single-owner sale at Bonhams New York
Yayoi Kusama, Mississippi River, 1960. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Some of the earliest recognized works by Yayoi Kusama which have never been exhibited in public will be offered in a special single-owner collection sale at Bonhams New York on Wednesday, May 12. The sale, Kusama: The Collection of the late Dr Teruo Hirose, comprises three paintings and eight works on paper, gifted by Kusuma herself to Dr Hirose, her lifelong friend and doctor whom she consulted in her early years in New York in the 1960s, when she was a struggling young artist in need of medical aid.