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Saburō Murakami

Japanese | 1925 - 1996

Saburō Murakami was a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1925. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem have featured Saburō Murakami's work in the past.Saburō Murakami's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1,217 USD to 398,109 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2013 the record price for this artist at auction is 398,109 USD for Work, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2019. Saburō Murakami has been featured in articles for Los Angeles Times and ARTnews. The most recent article is Upheaval Wrestles with Tradition in Korean Art of the 1960s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum written for Los Angeles Times in March 2024. The artist died in 1996.

Artist's alternative names: murakami Saburo, Saburo Murakami

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

UNTITLED - Saburō Murakami

UNTITLED

By Saburō Murakami
Est-Ouest Auctions, Paris
Work 1 - Saburō Murakami

Work 1

By Saburō Murakami
Christie's Hong Kong
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Past Exhibitions

Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section Women Reading - Artizon Museum

Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section Women Reading

Artizon Museum
Chuo-ku | Tokyo | Japan
Sep 09,2023 - Nov 19,2023
Liturgie Colorée - Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem

Liturgie Colorée

Oct 29,2022 - Oct 28,2023
Abstraction: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fauvism, Cubism and on to Today - Artizon Museum

Abstraction: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fauvism, Cubism and on to Today

Artizon Museum
Chuo-ku | Tokyo | Japan
Jun 03,2023 - Aug 20,2023
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Articles

Upheaval Wrestles with Tradition in Korean Art of the 1960s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum

Upheaval Wrestles with Tradition in Korean Art of the 1960s and ’70s at the Hammer Museum  

Los Angeles Times 15/03/2024
9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week

9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week  

ARTnews 23/04/2018
10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

MutualArt 01/07/2015

Coverage

“ .. Further, by making a general survey of Murakami’s “Paper-Breakings” alongside his sculptural work Air (1956/1994) and his painting works from the ’50s and ’60s, we will take a fresh look at his practice... ”

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ARTCOURT Gallery

“ ..It was Murakami’s theoretical interest that lead him to these paper breakthroughs that are internationally renowned as pioneering examples of performance art... ”

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Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp

“ ..Murakami encouraged viewers to rethink their assumptions about art, while questioning the conventions of the medium, authorship, art making, and art observing... ”

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Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp

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