These images by photographer Iwan Baan show artist Yayoi Kusama's pumpkin sculpture installed on a pier on Naoshima Island, Japan, before it was swept away by a typhoon earlier this week.
Images and video footage of the sculpture crashing into the sea went viral earlier this week after an unexpectedly severe tropical storm caught staff at the museum that owns the sculpture by surprise.
Employees at Benesse Art Site were powerless to do anything but record the event as the sculpture was dragged from its fastenings by the waves and crashed into the pier, breaking into three pieces.
Above: Iwan Baan photographed Kusama's Pumpkin sculpture when it was still in one piece. Top: One of the architectural photographer's images shows the sculpture glowing at night Baan captured the sculpture when it was still in one piece.
The architectural photographer's images show the distinctive black and yellow polka-dotted sculpture, which is simply titled Pumpkin, installed near the edge of a pier in Gotanji, Naoshima Town.
Aerial photographs emphasise the sculpture's precarious position over the sea, while a night shot (top) shows the fibreglass-reinforced plastic sculpture glowing from within like a beacon.
The pumpkin sculpture was sat on the edge of a pier on Naoshima Island
Benesse Art Site has exhibited the pumpkin on the island since 1994. Usually, the sculpture is removed during bad weather, but the storm that hit Naoshima Island on Monday 9 August was unexpectedly severe.

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