India, Aug. 28 -- Y ou may not immediately recognise the name Yayoi Kusama, but chances are you have seen her world: endless mirrored rooms, giant polka-dotted pumpkins or Louis Vuitton bags and stores covered in colourful dots. Born in Matsumoto, Japan, in 1929, the artist, whose immersive works became some of contemporary art's most recognisable images, has died aged 97. Kusama died at a Tokyo hospital on August 14; her death was announced on Thursday. Long before immersive art became a social-media phenomenon, Kusama was using mirrors, lights and repetition to create rooms that seemed to stretch into infinity. Her dots and pumpkins eventually travelled far beyond galleries into public installations and blockbuster fashion collaborations, including with Louis Vuitton. Paying tribute, the luxury house's chairman and CEO Pietro Beccari said she had left "an indelible mark on the art world". Her longtime gallerist David Zwirner said her large-scale installations helped pioneer what is now called "experiential art", describing her as "without a doubt, the most famous living artist in the world" at the time of her death. Kusama was also among the world's most commercially successful women artists. Her 1959 painting Untitled (Nets) fetched $10.5 million at auction in 2022. HTC...