Takashi Murakami Flower Plush 1M

The Takashi Murakami Flower Plush 100CM Purple/Black is a FW17 collectible from Takashi Murakami's ongoing plush flower program that the artist has maintained for over two decades, the large-format 100-centimeter version representing the most physically commanding scale available in the Flower Plush series and a piece that Murakami himself described in a 2018 interview as part of a production commitment he has maintained since he first started working with a company to make his flowers into plush toys approximately twenty years prior to that statement. Takashi Murakami, born in Tokyo in 1962 and founder of the Kaikai Kiki studio and production company, developed his Superflat aesthetic to engage with and critique the flattened, consumer-oriented visual culture of postwar Japan, and the smiling flower character, with its wide-eyed face surrounded by radiating petals, became one of the most recognizable and most commercially successful motifs in contemporary art, appearing across paintings, sculptures, prints, and the plush collectibles that translate the gallery-scale work into accessible domestic objects. The 100-centimeter diameter of the large Flower Plush places it in the category of room-scale decorative objects rather than desk or shelf collectibles, the meter-wide plush flower occupying significant visual real estate in any domestic or gallery environment and representing the scale Murakami has reportedly used when sending plush flowers as gifts to friends including Drake and KAWS. The Purple and Black colorway applies the classic dark-petaled, high-contrast version of the Flower motif with the smiling face, one of the most sought-after colorway combinations in the Flower Plush series for its more somber and more dramatically toned character relative to the rainbow or pastel pink versions. Released November 4, 2017 at $600. The Takashi Murakami Flower Plush 100CM Purple/Black is the FW17 large-format one-meter plush flower for the collector who wants the most physically commanding and most room-scale-appropriate size in the Flower Plush series in the most dramatically toned and most collectible dark colorway from Murakami's foundational decades-long plush flower program. The Takashi Murakami Flower Plush 100CM Purple/Black was released on November 4, 2017 with a retail price of $600.