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"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)
"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)

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"TADANORI YOKOO - EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION (日本万国博覧会せんい館), Japanese Contemporary Art Poster, Original Offset c.1969–70, Ultra Rare, Oversize B1 Format (c.104 x 77 cm)

Sale price $495.00

This is an original Japanese offset poster commissioned for the Textiles Pavilion at Osaka Expo ’70. Official museum records title the work 日本万国博覧会せんい館 / EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION,  c.104 x 77 cm the most accurate listing size. Museum examples are recorded in the collections of The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, and Tokushima Modern Art Museum, and The National Museum of Art, Osaka also notes the work’s inclusion in The Complete Posters of Tadanori Yokoo in 2010.

EXPO ’70, TEXTILE PAVILION / 日本万国博覧会せんい館 (1969; catalogued 1970 by some institutions)

A striking and highly collectible Expo-era Yokoo design, this poster brings together modern airliners, a blazing pavilion structure, and a staged group of kimono-clad figures in one of Yokoo’s most memorable late-1960s / early-1970s compositions. The dating genuinely varies across institutions: The National Museum of Art, Osaka, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto checklist, and Tokushima Modern Art Museum list the design as 1969, while Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art catalogs it as 1970; a Yokohama Museum of Art research bulletin further notes that Yokoo was asked to produce the Textiles Pavilion poster on November 4, 1969, which helps explain why both dates appear in the literature.

One of Japan's most famous graphic designers - the legend Tadanori Yokoo.

He is one of the defining figures of postwar Japanese graphic design. Art Platform Japan notes that MoMA acquired 14 of Yokoo’s posters in 1967, that he designed the Fiber / Textiles Pavilion for the Japan World Exposition in 1970, and that he held a solo exhibition at MoMA in 1972; the Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art profile also records the 1972 MoMA solo exhibition.

Please refer to the imagery (both front and back) as this is the exact poster that is for sale.

Condition is used / good, with age-related wear visible throughout, including overall creasing and fold wear, surface scuffing / cracking, edge wear with small losses and nicks, and a puncture / tear visible on the reverse lower area. We have taken the condition fully into account when pricing this poster.

This poster was sourced by Japan Poster Shop from a warehouse in Osaka.

It is over 55 years old.

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.

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