A screenprint on white wove paper poster with a fluroescent orange and red ombre portrait of the artist holding a cigarette set against a blue, green and yellow gradient background. In the lower left are Japanese characters printed in orange, and the word [SEIBU] is printed in white capitals inside a white box, with white Japanese characters underneath on our left corner of the portrait.

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1970	We photographed this object.
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Poster, Exhibition of Rokuro Taniuchi at Seibu Department Store

This is a Poster. It was designed by Tadanori Yokoo. It is dated 1981 and we acquired it in 2009. Its medium is screenprint on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

Rokuro Taniuchi was an acclaimed illustrator known for his child-like, surreal covers for the weekly magazine Shukan Shincho. In this poster for a 1981 exhibition of his work, a fluorescent pink portrait of a smiling, cigarette-holding Taniuchi floats over a blue-yellow ombre background to produce an image that is emblematic of Yokoo’s Pop-Art, exuberant aesthetic.

This object was donated by Marc Benda and Sara Benda. It is credited Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.

Horizontal rectangular print with fifty colorful squares arranged in a grid five squares high by ten squares wide. The primary color shifts in a gradient from yellow filling the squares at left to red at right. Each square is filled with thin vertical lines in a contrasting color shifting from blue to green to yellow from top to bottom and bordered in that same color. Thin white lines fill the spaces in between the squares and a thick white border at top and bottom. Faint handwritten words in pencil at lower right.

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Its dimensions are

102.5 x 72.7 cm (40 3/8 x 28 5/8 in.)

Cite this object as

Poster, Exhibition of Rokuro Taniuchi at Seibu Department Store; Designed by Tadanori Yokoo (Japanese, b. 1936); screenprint on white wove paper; 102.5 x 72.7 cm (40 3/8 x 28 5/8 in.); Gift of Sara and Marc Benda; 2009-12-14

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2E1hX/
Accession Number 2009-12-14
Object ID 18731735