
Teruko Yokoi b. 1924, Tsushima, Japan - d. 2020, Bern, Switzerland
Violet, 1980
Acrylic on canvas
45 3/4 x 32 3/4 in.
116.4 x 83.4 cm
116.4 x 83.4 cm
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$ 85,000.00
Drawn from her impressions of the natural world, she would describe her paintings as “poems written in colors”. Yokoi enjoyed a pastoral childhood, wandering the hills outside of Nagoya with...
Drawn from her impressions of the natural world, she would describe her paintings as “poems written in colors”. Yokoi enjoyed a pastoral childhood, wandering the hills outside of Nagoya with her father on what he termed “haiku hiroi”. Settling in Bern in 1962, the landscape reminded her of the childhood landscape lost after World War II. Violet represents the lyrical merging of abstract expressionist experiences with Japanese aesthetics.
Provenance
Private Collection.Galerie Kornfeld Auktionen AG (2010)
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Teruko Yokoi. Marlborough Gallery, New York. April 2024Literature
Buhl, Elizabeth. Art Seen: Teruko Yokoi. The Brooklyn Rail. April, 2024 illusPublications
Kempkes, Anke. Teruko Yokoi. New York: Marlborough Gallery. c. 2024 illus. p 69Join our mailing list
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