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Takeo Yamaguchi (born November 23, 1902 in Seoul, Korea, died April 23, 1983 in Tokyo, Japan) was a prominent Japanese artist. He studied Western painting at the Tokyo Art School. When he graduated in 1927, Yamaguchi moved to Paris. He represented Japan at the Sao Paolo (1955 and 1963) and Venice Biennales (1956) and his paintings have been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York as early as the 1950s and 1960s. He had solo shows at the Minami Gallery, Tokyo (1961, 1965, 1968, 1972, 1975), and at Nihonbashi Gallery, the first Japanese gallery established in New York (1963).