Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Coin Purse

The Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Coin Purse is a licensed merchandise piece from one of the most significant living artists in contemporary art, featuring Yayoi Kusama’s iconic pumpkin motif rendered as a three-dimensional coin purse in the yellow and black polka dot aesthetic that has become the most universally recognizable visual signature in Kusama’s six-decade career of obsessive dot-pattern art, sculpture, and installation work. The pumpkin is Kusama’s most personally significant and most commercially reproduced motif, first painted by the Japanese artist in Matsumoto during her childhood and developed across paintings, sculptures, and large-scale installations including the permanent bronze pumpkin sculptures at Naoshima Island in Japan that have become pilgrimage destinations for contemporary art enthusiasts globally. The coin purse format makes the pumpkin motif wearable and functional as a daily-carry accessory, translating Kusama’s fine art practice into a collectible merchandise object that sits at the intersection of art world collecting and lifestyle accessories, appealing to both dedicated Kusama collectors who acquire her work across all formats and to broader art-adjacent lifestyle buyers who want wearable references to contemporary fine art. At $100 retail the Pumpkin Coin Purse is priced at the premium licensed artist merchandise tier appropriate for a Kusama-branded object, available through museum shops, art book retailers, and select lifestyle and design stores globally.Released January 1, 2017 at $100 retail through museum shops and select art merchandise retailers globally.The Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin Coin Purse was released on January 1, 2017 with a retail price of $100.