According to a report by Kyodo News on the 27th, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama passed away on the 14th local time. The report stated that Kusama died of multiple organ failure in a Tokyo hospital at the age of 97. Kusama was renowned worldwide for her brightly colored polka-dot and mesh-patterned works, and was also widely known for her pumpkin sculptures and other pieces.

Yayoi Kusama's Biography: Yayoi Kusama was born in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from Matsumoto Girls' School in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

She moved to New York City in 1956 and began showcasing her leading avant-garde art. She now resides in Tokyo, Japan. She has exhibited alongside prominent contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Jasper Johns.

When Yayoi Kusama was about 10 years old, she began to be plagued by numerous hallucinations, which led to frequent suicidal attempts. She left behind a pencil drawing she made of her mother at that time, which was already filled with small circles.

In 1954, Kusama expressed the following in his painting "Flowers (D.S.P.S)": "One day I looked at the pattern on a red tablecloth and began to look around for the same pattern, from the ceiling, windows, walls to every corner of the room, and finally my body and the universe. In the process of searching, I felt myself being annihilated, constantly spun by an infinite sense of time and absolute space, and I became small and insignificant."

In 1957, she moved to the United States and spent most of her time creating art in New York City, where she began to be known as the "Queen of the Avant-garde."

The collection of Yayoi Kusama's works, published in 1998, includes her contemporary art works from 1958 to 1968. In 1951, her painting "Zanmu," created when she was young, was selected for the 2nd Japan Creative Award.

In 2003, a long-term retrospective exhibition was held in Japan and the United States. She was awarded the Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. She continued to create art in her old age while living in a psychotherapy center in Tokyo. Her studio was not far from the center. She often told the media, "If it weren't for art, I would have committed suicide long ago."

Yayoi Kusama is one of the most important female artists in the world. Her works have long occupied core positions in secondary market transactions, making her a benchmark blue-chip artist in the market.

She has ranked first in auction performance among living female artists worldwide for ten consecutive years, with Asia being the main trading market for her works, where most transactions take place.

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