Takeo Yamaguchi
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Takeo Yamaguchi (山口長男, Yamaguchi Takeo, born November 23, 1902, in Seoul, Korea, died April 23, 1983, in Tokyo, Japan) was an avant-garde Japanese painter of monochrome Art Informel works.
About
[edit]Yamaguchi studied Western painting at the Tokyo Art School. Upon graduation in 1927, he moved to Paris to study European painting. He developed his mature style during the mid-1950s, with a focus on flatness.[1]
Yamaguchi's Yellow Eyes, painted in 1959, sold for US$948,500 at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York on May 18, 2017,[2] which set a record for the highest price paid for the artist's work.[citation needed]
Exhibitions
[edit]Group exhibitions
[edit]- 1955 - São Paulo Biennial[1]
- 1956 - Venice Biennale: Japan Pavilion
- 1958 - Guggenheim Museum: Guggenheim International Award exhibition,
- 1963 - São Paulo Biennial
- 1964 - Museum of Modern Art, New York: The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture
Solo exhibitions
[edit]- 1961 - Minami Gallery, Tokyo[1]
- 1963 - Nihonbashi Gallery, New York
- 1965 - Minami Gallery, Tokyo
- 1968 - Minami Gallery, Tokyo
- 1972 - Minami Gallery, Tokyo
- 1975 - Minami Gallery, Tokyo
Permanent collections
[edit]- Guggenheim Museum, New York[3]
- Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Brooklyn Museum, New York
- Menard Art Museum, Nagoya
- Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
- Shimane Art Museum
- Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- Municipal Museum, Kagoshima
- Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
References
[edit]- ^ a b c https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/Takeo-Yamaguchi Takeo Yamaguchi, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
- ^ https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-110-million-basquiat-unseats-warhol-americas-expensive-artist-sothebys-sale Artsy.net
- ^ http://japanesescreens.com/catalogue/modernpost-war/7356/ Gregg Baker Asian Art[better source needed]