Table Lamp

Marking: Inscribed (underside of lamp base): AKARI JAPAN; stamped (bottom of shade .c): [Noguchi's mark, circle and crescent] JAPAN; stamped (bottom of shade .d): [Noguchi's mark]

Connie and Bryan Thompson, Los Angeles (by ca. 2000 or 2001; sale, Los Angeles Modern Auctions, May 7, 2001, no. 214, to MMA)

Shuzo Takiguchi et al. Noguchi. Tokyo, 1953, pp. 79–80.

Isamu Noguchi. Craft Horizons 19 (September/October 1954), pp. 16–18 (on "akari" in general).

Isamu Noguchi. "Akari." Arts & Architecture (May 1955), (on "akari" in general).

R. Buckminster Fuller. Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World. New York and Evanston, Ill., 1968, p. 33 (on "akari" in general).

Cherie Fehrman and Kenneth Fehrman. Postwar Interior Design, 1945–1960. New York, 1987, p. 50 (on "akari" in general).

Martin Eidelberg in Design 1935–1965: What Modern Was. Selections from the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection. Ed. Martin Eidelberg. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Montréal. New York, 1991, pp. 126–27.

Christopher Wilk in Design 1935–1965: What Modern Was. Selections from the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection. Ed. Martin Eidelberg. Exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Montréal. New York, 1991, pp. 126–27 (on "akari" in general).

Isamu Noguchi Retrospective. Exh. cat., Natonal Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, 1992.

Isamu Noguchi. Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations. Ed. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and Bruce Altshuler. New York, 1994, pp. 102–4, 148–49, ill. and ill. p. 97 (on "akari" in general).

Takuya Kida. Akari: Light Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi. Ed. Kenji Kaneko et al. Exh. cat., National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, 2003, pp. 17–22, figs. 16–20 (on "akari" in general).

Valerie J. Fletcher. Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. London, 2004, pp. 122, 124 (on "akari" in general).