Takashi Murakami for BLM Flowers & Skulls Round Print

The Takashi Murakami for BLM Black Flowers Skulls Round Print Signed Edition of 300 is a July 2020 limited-edition signed print from Takashi Murakami created in direct response to and support of the Black Lives Matter movement following the killing of George Floyd in May 2020 — one of the most significant cultural and political moments in American history in decades — making this print one of the most historically contextualized and most politically charged works in Murakami’s commercial collectible catalog. Murakami’s BLM print applies his signature flower and skull imagery in a Black-dominant palette that transforms the artist’s characteristically joyful and color-saturated visual vocabulary into a more somber and more politically weighted composition, with the black flowers and skulls creating a version of Murakami’s iconic motifs that directly engages with mortality, mourning, and the political urgency of the moment in which the print was created. As a hand-signed edition of 300, the print occupies the most valuable tier in Murakami’s accessible print market — with the artist’s signature on each of the 300 prints providing the highest level of artist authentication available in the multiple print format and the small edition size creating significant scarcity relative to the enormous global demand for Murakami-signed works. Released July 1, 2020 at $800 retail through Murakami’s official channels with proceeds directed to Black Lives Matter organizations, making this among the most socially significant commercial art releases Murakami has produced in his career.The Takashi Murakami for BLM Black Flowers Skulls Round Print Signed Edition of 300 was released on July 1, 2020 with a retail price of $800.