[image: Seiji Togo "Violet" 1952, oil on canvas, 108.4×80.0cm, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc.]

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The museum opened on the 42nd floor of the Sompo Japan headquarters in 1976 as the Seiji Togo Museum of Art, and in April 2020 changed its name to the Sompo Museum of Art, and in July of the same year moved to a six-story building on the same site. The museum holds exhibitions of Japanese and foreign artists about five times a year, and is well known as the only museum in Asia where you can see Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

Retrospective of Togo’s Depiction of Women: Lyricism and Beauty