TADANORI YOKOO (B. 1936) - photo 1
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TADANORI YOKOO (B. 1936)

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HKD 428 400
Auction dateClassic
01.12.2022 18:00UTC +01:00
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ID 861451
Lot 363 | TADANORI YOKOO (B. 1936)
TADANORI YOKOO (B. 1936)

Motorcycle

signed and dated '1966.5.31 Tadanori Yokoo' (lower right)

acrylic on canvas

53 x 45.5 cm. (20 7/8 x 17 7/8 in.)

Conceived in 1966 and painted in 2002





Provenance

Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002



Literature

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Tadanori Yokoo: All Things in the Universe, exh. cat., Tokyo, 2002 (illustrated, p.30).

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, YOKOO by Yokoos: Pleasure of Image-making/ Dialectic Journey of Image Association, exh. cat.. Kyoto, 2003 (illustrated, p. 46).

Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Tadanori Yokoo: Kumamoto-Bueno Aires Project, exh. cat., Kumamoto, 2005 (illustrated, p. 55).

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Tadanori Yokoo, exh. cat., Paris, 2006 (illustrated, p.103).

Setagaya Art Museum, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, TADANORI YOKOO: BE ADVENTUROUS!, exh. cat., Tokyo, 2008 (illustrated, p.29).

Centre Pompidou-Metz, Japanorama. A New Vision on Art Since 1970, exh. cat., Metz, 2017 (illustrated, pp. 68, 222).

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, GENKYO Yokoo Tadanori II: Works, exh. cat., Tokyo, 2021 (illustrated, p.57).



Exhibited

Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tadanori Yokoo: All Things in the Universe, 10 August - 27 October 2002. This exhibition later travelled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 3 November 2002 - 26 January 2003.

Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, YOKOO by Yokoos: Pleasure of Image-making/ Dialectic Journey of Image Association, July - August 2003.

Kumamoto, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Tadanori Yokoo: Kumamoto-Bueno Aires Project, 29 January-17 April 2005.

Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Tadanori Yokoo, 4 March - 28 May 2006.

Tokyo, Setagata Art Museum, TADANORI YOKOO: BE ADVENTUROUS!, 19 April - 15 June 2008. This exhibition later travelled to Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 27 June - 24 August 2008.

Metz, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Japanorama. A New Vision on Art Since 1970, 20 October 2017 - 7 March 2018. Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, GENKYO YOKOO TADANORI, 15 January-11 April 2021. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, 17 July-17 October 2021; Oita Prefectural Art Museum, 4 December 2021-23 January 2022.
Art style:Contemporary art
Place of origin:Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia
Category:Painting
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