Louis Vuitton x Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929, Japan)

'Chapeau Polka Dots' (Red), 2012 

Limited Edition Patent Vernis Leather Monogram Coin Purse w/ Polished Brass Chain Clasp

Authentic exquisite high quality designer vernis red monogram leather Infinity Dots coin purse with zip around closure from Saks Fifth Avenue, Bal Harbour, FL. Yayoi Kusama and Louis Vuitton signatures imprinted inside, as well as, serial number '1S2132'. Louis Vuitton signature engraved on clasp and both sides of zipper pull. Made in France. Material: varnished patent calf leather (exterior); calf leather (interior); polished brass (hardware). Dimensions: 4" (10 cm) x 3-7/8" (10 cm) x 3/4" (2 cm) with 10" (25 cm) chain and 1-1/2" (4 cm) clasp. BRAND NEW / Mint condition with all original packaging (dust bag, box).

PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from Saks Fifth Avenue, Bal Harbour, FL on January 16, 2013.

GREAT GIFT ITEM!!!

Yayoi Kusama is known in the art world for her obsession with dots. Artistic Director Marc Jacobs approached Kusama to design a limited edition collection for Louis Vuitton that interprets the emblematic and unforgettable works for Kusama. From the first (2012) installment of the Yayoi Kusama collaboration, this Round Coin Purse is made to attach to the D-rings of LV bags and to keep your change organized in an elegant fashion. Made from classic Monogram Vernis in a bright red with an overlay of large polka dots in one of Louis Vuitton's most recognizable styles.

The Louis Vuitton Monogram Vernis line was first introduced in 1998. In French "vernis" means varnish which explains the shiny and sparkly effect of the bags. It is a monogram embossed coated leather which is like patent leather and has been released in many different colors throughout the years.

Yayoi Kusama, the most important living Japanese artist, has produced a powerful body of work that includes drawing, painting, and sculpture, as well as some of contemporary art's first environmental installations and performance works. Much of her work is characterized by a formal and personal impulse toward repetition and accumulation. Plagued by mental illness since childhood, she has suffered hallucinations and an obsession with certain images, which Kusama has turned into a highly personal visual language applied to painted surfaces and realized in sculptural objects. Born in Japan, Kusama moved to New York in 1957 and lived there for fifteen years. She now resides in Tokyo where she has voluntarily established permanent residence at a psychiatric hospital.

Yayoi Kusama's prolific oeuvre ranges from large paintings and sculptures, to performance pieces and political demonstrations. Since childhood, Kusama has been creating works using polka dots and nets as motifs in a variety of media. During the 1950s and 1960s she played a major role in New York's avant-garde art scene, participating in many happenings, including an unannounced performance in the Sculpture Garden of The Museum of Modern Art in 1969. Kusama returned to Japan where she lives and works today, creating some of the most recognizable work of our time.

Kusama belongs to the same constellation of artists as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn and Annette Messager. She has risen to fame on two separate occasions. This occurred initially during the 1960s in New York and Europe. Then once again, in the 1990s, as an artist advanced in years, she returned triumphantly to the Japanese and world art scenes, her success confirmed by a solo exhibition Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1998, demonstrating her influence on the American art of the 1960s.

Born in 1929 to a prosperous family in central Japan, Yayoi Kusama was doing pencil drawings that featured her distinctive motif of dots and net-like patterns by the time she was 10. During World War II, she and her classmates worked in a local parachute factory to support the war effort and after the war she entered the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts, graduating in 1949, although she was judged not passing, in drawing. Despite strong efforts from her family to discourage her becoming an artist, Kusama began to exhibit in group exhibitions. Ongoing family disapproval, however, resulted in what Kusama calls her era of mental breakdown. This acknowledgment of her condition and the ongoing struggle against it, became the enabling force behind Kusama's art.

Kusama moved to New York in 1957 and in 1959 had her first solo exhibition of five net paintings, vast canvases covered with tiny repeating patterns, at Brata Gallery, a well-regarded Tenth Street cooperative space. The show was an immediate success and Kusama's work received acclaim from artist Donald Judd and writer and critic Dore Ashton. During the 60s she became a member of the New York avant-garde and by 1968, her celebrity rivaled Andy Warhol's. However, despite successful group shows, solo exhibitions, and wild public performances, the death of her friend, artist Joseph Cornell, in 1972 provoked a psychic crisis and an ensuing return of her mental illness deepened her state of isolation and dragged the artist into a state of depression.

In 1973, Kusama returned to Japan and in February 1975 she entered the Seiwa Hospital in Tokyo, a private psychiatric hospital known for using art therapy to treat neuroses, where she continues to live today. Kusama maintains a studio outside the hospital grounds and makes art with the help of assistants. She has worked for more than forty years in a variety of media, exploring themes of accumulation, repetition and obsession. In addition to her visual art, installations and performances, Kusama has written several fictional novels and composed 13 pieces of music.

Yayoi Kusama's art is always autobiographical, speaking of a deep psychological and sexual context. One of the most important motifs in her work is dots and their absence, painted nets, whose empty spaces reveal the trace of a dot and call forth the negative of space and of experience. The dot motif also appears both in the space of her images on canvas and in her three-dimensional installations. Another recurrent motif is phalluses representing the artist's obsessions and sexual context.

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023
'Yayoi Kusama: INFINITE LOVE', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA (10/14/2023 - 9/7/2024)
'Yayoi Kusama: Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers', David Zwirner Gallery, Ney York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING', Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL (3/9/2023 - 2/11/2024)

2022
'Yayoi Kusama: My Soul Blooms Forever', Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
'Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now', M+ Museum, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
'One With Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Center, Washington, DC
'Yayoi Kusama: The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (Infinity Mirror Room)' and 'Yayoi Kusama: Longing for Eternity (Infinity Mirror Room)', The Broad, Los Angeles, CA (1/5 - ongoing)

2021
'Yayoi Kusama', Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (October - )
'Yayoi Kusama', Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (April - )
'Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective:  Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe', Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
'Yayoi Kusama: Cosmic Nature', New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Rooms', Tate Modern, London, UK (3/29/2021 - 6/30/2023)

2020
'Yayoi Kusama', Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
'Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water', Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
'Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love', Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC

2019
'Yayoi Kusama: Where the Lights in My Heart Go (Infinity Mirror Room)', Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
'Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water', Toledo Museum of Art (TMA), Toledo, OH
'Yayoi Kusama: The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (Infinity Mirror Room)' and 'Yayoi Kusama: Longing for Eternity (Infinity Mirror Room)', The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
'Yayoi Kusama: My Heart is Dancing into the Universe (Infinity Mirror Room)', Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
'Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE', David Zwirner, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (Infinity Mirror Room)', Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami, Miami, FL
'Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING (Infinity Mirror Room)', Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)/Boston, Boston, MA
'Yayoi Kusama', Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands

2018
'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors', High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
'Yayoi Kusama: LOVE IS CALLING (Infinity Mirror Room)', Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors', Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
'Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love', Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors', Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Canada

2017
'Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow', Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
'Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life' (Chelsea) and 'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Net Paintings' (uptown), David Zwirner, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors', The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
'Yayoi Kusama: Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art', Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Net', Judd Foundation, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors', Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
'Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow', National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
'Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors', Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
'Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul', National Art Center, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan

2015
'Yayoi Kusama', Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark [travels to Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Helsinki Art Museum, Finland]
'Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed', National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung [travels to National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi]
'Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love', David Zwirner, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: A Dream I Dreamed', Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2012
'Yayoi Kusama: Retrospective', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity', The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: New Works', Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
'Yayoi Kusama: Retrospective', Tate Modern, London, UK

2011
'Yayoi Kusama: Flowers That Bloom at Midnight', Jardins des Tuileries, Paris, France
'Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever', Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland, Australia
'Yayoi Kusama: Retrospective', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
'Yayoi Kusama: New Paintings & Sculptures', Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
'Yayoi Kusama: Retrospective', Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
'Yayoi Kusama', Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
'Yayoi Kusama: Heaven and Earth', Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

2010
'Yayoi Kusama: Outdoor Sculptures', Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
'Until Now: Collecting the New (1960–2010)' (group exhibition), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

2009
'Yayoi Kusama: Flowers That Bloom at Midnight', Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
'Yayoi Kusama: I Want to Live Forever', Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC), Milan, Italy
'GROUP SHOW: Bharti Kher, Yayoi Kusama, Eva Rothschild and Mindy Shapero', Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years', City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
'Yayoi Kusama: Room to Grow', COMME des GARÇONS "Six", Osaka, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Web', Gallery Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo, Japan
'Walking in My Mind' (group exhibition), Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
'Yayoi Kusama: Outdoor Sculptures', Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
'Yayoi Kusama: Flowers That Bloom at Midnight', Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
'Yayoi Kusama', Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years', Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia

2008
'Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years', Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
'Yayoi Kusama', Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession', Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
'Yayoi Kusama, Steven Parrino, Anselm Reyle', Victoria Miro Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama', Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Pumpkin Forever', Forever Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Akita, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Part II', Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2007
'Yayoi Kusama: Part I', Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
'Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession', WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
'Yayoi Kusama: Prints 1982-2004', Peter Blum SoHo, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama', Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
'Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity', Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession – Love Transformed into Dots', Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2006
'Yayoi Kusama: Painting, Collages, Prints', Gallery Toki-no Wasuremono, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Praemium Imperiale 2006', Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Metamorphosis', Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
'Yayoi Kusama: Silvery Sea', Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
'Yayoi Kusama', Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
'Yayoi Kusama in Forever', Forever Museum of Contemporary Art Gallery, Akita, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama', Iwami Art Museum, Shimane, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama', Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan

2005
'Yayoi Kusama Part II: Painting (recent work) / Prints (1994-2005) / Objects', Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: The Place for My Soul', Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
'Curator's Eye: Dot & Net', The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama Part I: Painting (recent work) / Prints (1980-1993)', Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama', Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
'Yayoi Kusama: Sailing the Sea of Infinity', Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Eight Places for Burning Soul', Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama', Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
'Yayoi Kusama', Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Dots Obsession', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
'Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity', The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

2004
'Yayoi Kusama: Eternity-Modernity', The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Steel Balls and Soft White Objects', Robert Miller Gallery, New York
'Why Not for Art?', Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
'And or Versus?: Adventures in Images', Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
'Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000', Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The University Art Museum - Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
'Yayoi Kusama', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
'Yayoi Kusama: Paintings', Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden', Public Art Fund Projects in Central Park, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
'Whitney Biennial' (Group exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
'Yayoi Kusama: Nets 1959-1999', MoMA Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan
'KUSAMATRIX', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (traveled to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido, Japan)

2003
'Lille 2004', Lille, France
'Obsession', Galica Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
'Yayoi Kusama: Works from the Years 1949 to 2003', Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
'Primary Matters: The Minimalist Sensibility, 1959 to the Present', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
'Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2003', Jean Art Center, Seoul, Korea
'HAPPINESS', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
'FIAC', Paris, France
'Yayoi Kusama', Piece Unique, Paris, France
'Biennale D'art Contemporain de Lyron 2003', Lyon, France
'Yayoi Kusama', J. Johnson Gallery, FL
'Yayoi Kusama', Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Love Forever', Fabian & Claude Water Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
'Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003', Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama', Shunan City Museum of Art and History, Yamaguchi, Japan
'2003: An Art Voyage', Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Prints', Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama: Beyond the Labyrinth', Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
'Do Hope for the Future', Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama', Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan
'Color Charity Exhibition 2003 Yellow', Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
'girls don't cry', Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama', Gallery Sekiryu, Nagano, Japan
'Transition', SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
'On this Side of the Sky: UNESCO Salutes Women in Art', UNESCO Women and Gender Equality Unit, Paris, France
'Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collections', Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan; Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
'Twinkling Touch: Japanese and Western Pointillism', Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
'Yayoi Kusama Prints; Pumpkin Ceramic Object Exhibition', Jean Art Center, Seoul, Korea
'Pop and More from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection', Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
'Walking in the City', apexart, New York, NY

 

SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Musee Nationale d'Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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