Takeo Yamaguchi

Takeo Yamaguchi in 1964

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[]

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[]

Group exhibitions[]

• 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[]

• 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[]

• 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

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