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The pumpkin is to Yayoi Kusama what the Campbell’s Soup can is to Warhol: an everyday comestible elevated to the status of fine art, via a singular artist’s skills and vision. She has created pumpkin sculptures and paintings, pumpkin infinity rooms, pumpkin charm bracelets and pumpkin polka-dot print shoes. However, Kusama’s very first pumpkin artwork, created when the 89-year-old (who celebrates her birthday today) was still in her teens, was a much less ambitious artistic undertaking. This is a screen print in a custom frame accompanied by an original, fabric-covered, cardboard portfolio case.
