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TANAKA, Atsuko   1932 - 2005
 
 
Gate of Hell
 
1965-69
Vinyl paint and acrylic on canvas, 331.5×245.5 cm
 
10151
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
 
Provenance
Purchased by the NMAO, FY1980.
 
Exhibition History
1969 [Tour Exhibition] THE 9TH CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION OF JAPAN, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1969/05/10 - 1969/05/30, Dai1bumon: Gendai Bijutsu 20nen no Daihyosaku.
1981 RECENT ACQUISITIONS, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Suita, 1981/04/09 - 1981/05/10
1986 Permanent Exhibition: Gendai Sekai no Bijutsu: Objet to Sho-Chokoku/Kanzo no Meihin, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Suita, 1986/05/24 - 1986/07/01
1997 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: From The Permanent Collection: Kaiga to Chokoku, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Suita, 1997/07/03 - 1997/10/19, list no. 42, [n.p.].
2001 [Tour Exhibition] Atuko Tanaka: Search for an Unknown Aesthetic, 1954-2000, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, 2001/03/03 - 2001/05/06, cat. no. 50, pp. 124, col. repr., 117.
2005 Collection 3, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, 2005/10/22 - 2005/12/18
2007 The 30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, 2007/12/18 - 2008/02/11, pp. 070-071, col. repr.
2010 Collection 3: Japanese Art 1950-2010, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, 2010/11/27 - 2011/02/20
2011 [Tour Exhibition] Atsuko Tanaka. The Art of Connecting, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2011/07/27 - 2011/09/11, cat. no. 80, pp. 136, col. repr., 182.
2016 Busan Biennale 2016: Project 1 an/other avant-garde: china-japan-korea, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, 2016/09/03 - 2016/11/30, pp. 192-193 col. repr., 337.
2022 Into the Unknown World―GUTAI: Differentiation and Integration, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, 2022/10/22 - 2023/01/09, cat. no. I-48, pp. 199, col. repr., 265.
 
Bibliography
2004 The National Museum of Art, Osaka, ed., "3 Japan after the Second World War". The National Museum of Art, Osaka: Selected Works from the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, p. 65, col. repr.
2006 Chiba, Shigeo, Japanese Art, Yet to Be Born, Shobunsha,Tokyo, cover, col. repr., [n. p.], col. repr.
2012 Shoji, Sachiko. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, ed., The National Museum of Art, Osaka: Selected Works from the Collection. Supplementary volume, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, p. 43, repr.
2012 Shoji, Sachiko. The National Museum of Art, Osaka, ed., The National Museum of Art, Osaka: Selected Works from the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, p. 102, col. repr.
2015 Motoe, Kunio; Kimura, Shigenobu; Nakatsuka, Hiroyuki; Kawasaki, Koichi; Hirai, Shoichi; Yamamoto, Atsuo; Mori, Ichiro; Kato, Mizuho; Kanagawa, Fukiko; Morikawa, Toshiko; Imada, Sumiko., Honda, Takahiro; Suzuki, Kazufumi; Ishikawa, Namino; Arakawa, Hiromi., eds., Nagoya, Satoru; Ota, Emma; Sato, Minoru; Oisin Collins; Spencer Beaudette; Ichikawa, Haruka., trans, GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Kitasaku-gun Karuizawa-cho, p. 110, col. repr.
2015 Sawayama, Ryo, Zuhan Kaisetsu (Description of Artist and Works). Kakucho Suru Sengo Bijutsu: Sengo - 1995. Nihon Bijutsu Zensyu. vol. 19, Shogakukan, Tokyo, cat. no. 135, [n. p.], col. repr., pp. 266, repr., 309.
2016 Gutai Artists. Art Collectors' in ASIA. Asia edition Vol. 7, 2016, Seikatsu no Tomo,Tokyo, p. 14, col. repr.
2019 The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Yamanashi, Toshio; Nakai, Yasuyuki; Takemoto, Ayako), supervision. Okazaki, Motoko, ed., design and text. Malik, Albert, trans., Masterpieces from The National Museum of Art, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Tokyo, cat. no. 31, pp. 46, 95, col. repr.
2021 Miura, Akinori; Yoshikawa, Tamihito, Kaiga no Hyogen; Ⅵ Hyogen ni Tsuite, 5 Gendai no Hyogen Ryoiki, Musashino Art Univercity Press,Musashino, p. 163, col. repr.
2021 Kato, Mizuho, Women and Art History: Tanaka, Atsuko Bijutsutecho No.1089 2021.08, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha,Tokyo, pp. 3, 19, col. repr.
2023 Kato, Mizuho, Tanaka Atsuko to Gutai Bijutsu Kyokai: Kanayama Akira Oyobi Yoshihara Jiro tono Kankei kara Yomitoku, Osaka University Press,Suita, cat. no. 3-36, p. 110, col. repr., 図F, p. 382, col. repr., [installation view].
 
 
Works by this artist
Work 66 - SA, 1966, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Work '63, 1963, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Work '70, 1970, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1978,B, 1978, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Gate of Hell, 1965-69, The National Museum of Art, Osaka