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Takeo Yamaguchi
Japanese painter

Takeo Yamaguchi

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Japanese painter
A.K.A.
Yamaguchi Takeo
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Seoul, South Korea
Age
80 years
Education
Tokyo University of the Arts
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Biography

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 ofmonochrome 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.

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, which set a record for the highest price paid for the artist's work.

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 1955 - São Paulo Biennial
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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