TERUKO YOKOI (b. 1924 Tsushima, Aichi, Japan d. 2020 Bern, Switzerland)
NO TITLE, Paris 1961
Oil on canvas
32 x 39 ½ in. / 81.3 x 100.3 cm
Inscribed on the verso “Teruko SFC-343”
Provenance:
The collection of Sam Francis
Early Exhibitions
California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco) 1954
Martha Jackson Gallery (New York) 1960
Institute of Contemporary Art (London) 1960.
Minami Gallery (Tokyo) 1961
“Tokyo, San Francisco, New York, Paris, and Bern—all places that left marks on her oeuvre…with all the feelings of uncertainty, disquiet, and displacement that such a position triggers…It is also an account of the experience of an artist who has worked despite and through the wounds of history, geography, race, and gender. Despite Yokoi’s proximity to the central Western postwar art movements of the Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel, she has never been made one of them—gifted and innovative, yet distinct and coming from a different cultural background…too different to share the same fights.”
on the occasion of the Kunstmuseum, Bern exhibition:
Marta Dziewanska. “Teruko Yokoi: History and its Dangerous Supplement(s), “
in Teruko Yokoi. Tokyo-New York-Paris-Bern (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2020), 79.
Collections in Depth
Teruko Yokoi Hinageshi Art Museum, Ena, Japan
Yokoi Teruko Fuji Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Schlossberg ThunAG, Thun
