Takeo Yamaguchi (山口長男, ''Yamaguchi Takeo'', born November 23, 1902, in Seoul, Korea, died April 23, 1983, in Tokyo, Japan) was an

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Japanese painter of

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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, 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

References

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