Yoko OnoJapanese, 1933Ono's Sales List
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Not on view at present
Where is “Ono's Sales List” now? Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 22, 2026.
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- 3044.2008
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In the life of Yoko Ono
The whole life8 August 1963
Daughter born: Kyoko Ono Cox
1964
“Grapefruit” is published
Ono publishes “Grapefruit”, a book of instruction-based “action poems”. Nearly half a century later, in 2013, a sequel, “Acorn”, will follow.
September 1966
Took part in: Destruction in Art Symposium
September 1966
London: the Destruction in Art Symposium
In September 1966 Ono visits London for the Destruction in Art Symposium organised by the artist and political activist Gustav Metzger. She is the only woman artist chosen to perform her own events and one of only two invited to speak.
7 November 1966
Meets John Lennon at the Indica Gallery
At the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono is preparing “Unfinished Paintings”, her conceptual exhibition, the gallery owner John Dunbar introduces her to John Lennon. Lennon is won over by “Ceiling Painting / Yes Painting”, a ladder at the top of which a magnifying glass reveals the tiny word YES; in “Hammer a Nail” he wants to hammer a nail in, Ono at first stops him and then relents for five shillings, and Lennon replies that he will give her an imaginary five shillings and hammer in an imaginary nail.
September 1967
“Half-A-Wind Show” at Lisson Gallery
After they meet, Ono starts writing to Lennon and sending him her conceptual artworks, and soon the two are corresponding. In September 1967 Lennon sponsors her solo “Half-A-Wind Show” at Lisson Gallery in London.
