Four Yayoi Kusama compositions now held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum were made in the mid-1950s using watercolor, ink, pastel, and tempera paint, before Kusama moved from Japan to the United States.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by SAAM's own blog and catalog records, plus independent reporting from Artnet and Smithsonian Magazine, all consistent on medium, count, dating, and provenance. [tier=silver indep_score=0.875 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- The Lost Kusamas (seed:culture_and_philosophy)
- https://news.artnet.com/art-world/smithsonian-just-discovered-four-yayoi-kusama-paintings-no-idea-existed-hidden-museums-files-1738578 (corroboration)
- https://americanart.si.edu/blog/lost-kusamas (corroboration)
- https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/fire-115720 (corroboration)