# Kenzo Okada artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:55:38.276Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1902-09-29
- Death date: 1982-07-25
- Nationality: Japanese, American
- Movements: Abstract Expressionism
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Kenzo Okada](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Kenzo_Okada.jpg)
Kenzo Okada · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_Okada

## About Kenzo Okada

Kenzo Okada (1902–1982) was a Japanese-born American painter associated with Abstract Expressionism. He developed his career across Japanese and American settings, with the collected biographical sources placing his activity in the United States from 1950. Accounts of his work describe an Abstract Expressionist practice shaped by an Asian cultural context, distinguishing his position within the broader postwar movement. Okada also represented Japan at the 29th Venice Biennale in 1958, where the available source reports that he received the Astorre Meyer Prize and a UNESCO prize. Museum and authority records—including entries maintained by MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress—provide stable identifiers for matching his name and works across collections and databases. Collectors are most likely to encounter Okada through paintings attributed to him and through auction records indexed under variant forms of his name, including Kenzō Okada and 岡田謙三.

## Common works and media

The strongest documented category in the collected sources is painting, particularly work associated with Okada's postwar Abstract Expressionist context. The source pack does not provide enough reliable evidence to characterize recurring subjects, named series, editions, prints, drawings, sculptures, or other media, so those categories should not be assigned to an object without work-specific documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, the first task is to confirm that a work and its documentation correspond to the painter Kenzo Okada, including records filed under alternate Japanese or romanized names. Relevant public auction results can then provide context through comparable lots, sale dates, and realized prices when those details are available. The present source pack establishes painting as the principal category but does not supply detailed auction-house cataloguing, provenance, condition, dimensions, or work-specific histories. Those object-level facts must therefore be established independently before drawing a value conclusion. Auction results should be compared selectively and should not be treated as a direct price prediction for an unexamined work.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1279374
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500010933
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/8283572/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82159799
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/7902
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1755.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_Okada
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenz%C5%8D_Okada
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzo_Okada
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/kenzo-okada/