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Giant Yayoi Kusama Figure

A giant red-haired figure depicting Yayoi Kusama leans over Louis Vuitton's Paris building on the Champs-Élysées, appearing to paint colored dots on its facade.
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Giant Yayoi Kusama Figure

Gone2023

Louis Vuitton · 101 Champs-Élysées, Paris

Photo: photographer not named, as published on Street Art Utopia (first shown there in a post of 26 January 2023).

In early 2023 a giant figure depicting the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama leaned over Louis Vuitton’s flagship store on the Champs-Élysées, appearing to paint the coloured dots that covered the facade. It was a Louis Vuitton display for the brand’s collaboration with Kusama; no source we found names who built it. Source Source Source Checked

Gone 2023 — Sortir à Paris listed the display until 31 March 2023. We found no report of the day it came down; the newest dated photograph we found is from 15 January 2023. Source Source Reported

💡 4 things to know

  1. Painting the buildingEuronews says the effigy is seen “painting” dots that adorn the building; Marketing Mag describes one arm hanging over the windows. Source Source Checked
  2. An inflatableEuronews calls it a giant inflatable mannequin; Marketing Mag calls it a giant sculpture placed on the roof. Source Source Reported
  3. A second collaborationThe 2023 collaboration was Louis Vuitton’s second with Kusama, after a first one in 2012. Source Source Checked
  4. A second giant in MarchSortir à Paris reported another giant Kusama figure at Louis Vuitton’s headquarters on rue du Pont-Neuf, opposite La Samaritaine, from 2 March 2023. Source Reported

📍 Where it is

On Louis Vuitton’s flagship store on the Champs-Élysées, Paris. Source Source Checked Sortir à Paris gives the address as 101 avenue des Champs-Élysées, at the corner of avenue George V. Source Reported

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 20235 Jan

    Works on show “Since January 5” (Sortir à Paris)

  2. 202311 Jan

    Listed start of the display (Sortir à Paris)

  3. 202315 Jan

    News photo of the figure over the store (caption date)

  4. 202326 Jan

    Street Art Utopia publishes this photo

  5. 202331 Mar

    Listed end of the display (Sortir à Paris)

Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.

🗞️ In the sources

Euronews25 January 2023

“Tourists and Parisians alike can’t help but look up when they pass the Louis Vuitton luxury brand shop on the Champs Élysées in Paris as a giant inflatable mannequin depicting Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama decorates the flagship store.”

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Sortir à ParisUpdated 16 January 2023

“his giant representation overhanging the corner of the Avenue George V and the Champs-Elysées. With her red hair and her polka-dot clothes, she is recognizable among thousands.”

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Marketing Magn.d.

“To the left of the timeless building, a giant sculpture of the Japanese artist hovers over the building.”

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Sortir à Paris (French edition)Updated 2 March 2023

“Une immense sculpture à l’effigie de Yayoi Kusama s’est érigée rue du Pont Neuf, entre le siège de la Maison Louis Vuitton et la Samaritaine.”

A huge sculpture in the likeness of Yayoi Kusama has risen on rue du Pont Neuf, between the Louis Vuitton headquarters and La Samaritaine.

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✅ The facts

Display by
Louis Vuitton, for its collaboration with Yayoi Kusama Source Source Checked
Depicts
Yayoi Kusama Source Source Source Checked
Made by
Not named in any source we found. Sortir à Paris writes that the artist “has signed” the works; Euronews describes a mannequin depicting her, in collaboration with Louis Vuitton Source Source Unconfirmed
Address
101 avenue des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris, at the corner of avenue George V Source Reported
On show
11 January to 31 March 2023 in the listing; the same page also says “Since January 5”. We follow the listing dates because they are the event listing, while “Since January 5” sits in a sentence that also covers the Vendôme automaton Source Conflicting
Type
Inflatable figure, according to Euronews Source Reported

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