Material Ink, pastel, felt pen on paper
Dimensions 55 × 39.8 cm
Price $245,000
Status Vetted

About the Work

In the mid-1970s, Kusama developed a body of work that can be understood as a form of pictorial self-affirmation, to which "Red River inside my Eyelids" belongs. These works read as concentrated, intimate counterparts to her earlier artistic excesses of the 1960s, when her art was determined by large-scale, space-filling installations and happenings, including a stripped bar personnel. Their net-like, flowing structures can be seen as a continuation of the "Infinity Nets"—yet here, infinity no longer expands into space but is folded back into the body.

The title evokes something fluid, organic, almost corporeal—like the flickering perceived behind closed eyelids. The work becomes a record of inner perception, opening a space of interior infinity.

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Provenance

Private collection, Japan

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