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.https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/Takeo-Yamaguchi Takeo Yamaguchi, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
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,https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-110-million-basquiat-unseats-warhol-americas-expensive-artist-sothebys-sale Artsy.net 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 Yorkhttp://japanesescreens.com/catalogue/modernpost-war/7356/ Gregg Baker Asian Art 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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