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Hello, everyone! Art Haz Online Auction on Invaluable is now happening. Check out our new collection of works on paper from various artists. This timed auction ends September 27, 2016. Visit www.arthaz.com or click on the link below for more information.

Fascinating print signed by Stanislao Lepri (1905-1980). Setting himself apart from the Parisian Surrealism, this artist who cannot be classified in any school, offer us a mysterious hybrid world made of reality and the fantastic.

YAYOI KUSAMA, “Supper”, 1963. Stuffed and sewn canvas in wooden box. Signed and Dated “Kusama 1963” on the underside, 8 inches x 16 inches x 14 inches; (20.3 cm x 40.6 cm x 35.6 cm).

Yayoi Kusama is a major postwar- contemporary Japanese artist and writer whose works incorporate visceral images and provoke philosophical questions. Born in 1929 in Matsumoto City, Japan, Kusama is also a well respected fictional writer of short stories, though Kusama began her career by studying Nihonga painting, a rigorous technique developed in Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912) which aims to distinguish the classical elements of traditional Japanese paintings from other western-influenced styles. Many of her works have a rather obsessive compulsive tendency, palpable in the repetitive visual imagery of many of her works, some containing an abundance of tiny dots and other repeated elements, which may read as neurotic or paranoid. Drawn to the international postwar art scene, Kusama moved to New York City in 1958, exhibiting her first paintings in 1959.  Highly cherished, her Net paintings consist of a series of mesmerizingly vast canvases entirely covered in rhythmic undulations, of which their coils suggest ‘infinity’. Kusama returned to Japan in the early 1970’s to begin working on her own surrealistic novels, short stories, and poems, only later to revisit themes that permeated throughout her earlier works. Kusama is also treasured for her series of soft sculptures that she created from the 1960’s to the 1980’s, which are chiefly comprised of various fabrics, embellishments found or handmade objects.