Meguro Museum Of Art, Tokyo
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Meguro is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward in the Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947. Meguro is predominantly residential in character ...
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. The building was opened in November 1987. Designed by
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(), it is of reinforced concrete construction, with one basement floor and three floors above ground, and has floor space of 4059 square metres.Unless otherwise noted, the material in this article comes from ''Zenkoku bijutsukan gaido'' (; Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2006; ), pp. 187–88. The permanent collection of the gallery includes works by such artists as Tsuguharu Fujita, Zenzōrō Kojima (), Shikanosuke Oka (), Kazuo Sakata (), and
Kumi Sugai was a Japanese painter and printmaker. Driven by an interest in avant-garde painting, Sugai moved to Paris in 1952 where he quickly attracted critical attention, participating in numerous exhibitions in Paris and abroad. First working in a style ...
(). The museum is at Meguro 2–4–36, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, a ten-minute walk from
Meguro Station is a railway station in the Kamiōsaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Kamiōsaki district of Shinagawa, Tokyo, close to the boundary with Meguro ward. Lines Meguro Station is served by the following lines: *East Japan Railway Company (JR East) Yamanote Lin ...
. The museum holds frequent exhibitions.


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