Work, 1976
Takeo Yamaguchi  

Painting : Watercolour · 53 x 37 cm 20.9 x 14.6 inch · Ready to hang

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53 x 37 cm 20.9 x 14.6 inch Height x Width x Depth

Artwork dimensions including frame

75 x 56.5 cm 29.5 x 22.2 inch

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Takeo Yamaguchi was an avant garde painter known for his monochrome, geometric works with simple compositions. Having been exposed to major European avant garde movements while staying in Paris, he adopted the formal flatness of Cubism, and eventually the thick brushstrokes of Art Informel, as well as hints from Minimalism and Conceptual art. Upon returning to Japan he was associated with the Nika-kai group, focused on experimentation and abstraction. His paintings are marked by an emphasis on the materiality of paint by reducing the painting to its bare elements, yet contain within them the potential of expanding surface.

Born in Seoul, Korea, 1902. Graduated from Tokyo University of Arts, 1927. Studied under Eisaku Wada; in France, under Yuzo Saeki and Ossip Zadkine, 1927-1930. Member of Nika Association, Tokyo, since 1931; exhibited with them. Lives in Tokyo; teaches at Musashino Art School. 

One-man shows:Minami Gallery, Tokyo, 1961; Nihonbashi Gallery, New York.1963. In various group exhibitions, including III and VII Bienal, São Paulo, 1955, 1963; XXVIII Biennale, Venice, 1956;

Guggenheim International Award Exhibition, New York, 1958;"Six Japanese Painters," Gres Gallery, Washington, D. C., 1960.

Awarded prize at Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Tokyo, 1954; one by Japanese Minister of Culture,

1962. Represented in collections of Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Municipal Museum, Kagoshima; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura; Ishibashi Cultural Center, Kurume:Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo;National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Provenance
Nakacho Konishi Arts, Tokyo
Acquired by the previous owner from the above
Sotheby's, Yamaguchi Takeo – Compromising Monochrome, Hong Kong, 3 April 2017, Lot 727
Private collection, Japan
Acquired from the above

Hand-signed by artist, with the artist's seal in the bottom right corner 

Abstract

Conceptual

1970s

60s

Japanese Art

Japan

Yellow

Red

Takeo Yamaguchi, Work
Japan  • 1902  - 1983

Presentation

Takeo Yamaguchi's style was a blend of influences from disparate traditions—a reflection of the artist's training in both Modernist styles and Japanese painting techniques. Yamaguchi first studied European styles of painting at the Tokyo Art School and then in Paris, and took particular interest in Cubism and other avant-garde movements; he was attracted to the reduction of form to flat planes. Upon his return to Japan, he became involved with the Nika-Kai Group, which was founded in opposition to the separation of canonical Japanese painting and Western styles. In the 1950s and '60s, Yamaguchi developed his mature style, a blend of Art Informel, flat geometry, and monochromatic reduction.

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