Lot 13
  • 13

Tsuguharu Foujita

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
  • Jeune fille en bleu, 1917
  • watercolour and ink on paper
  • Signed, situated and dated in Japanese fait à Paris Foujita and signed and dated in French T. Foujita 1917 lower left
  • 41,6 x 21 cm; 16 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris

Exhibited

Paris, Musée de Montmartre & Tokyo, Museum of Art Ecole de Paris, Tsuguharu-Léonard Foujita et l'Ecole de Paris, April 5 - September 30, 1991
Koshi (travelling exhibition in Japan), La splendeur de Paris et ses artistes, 2002
Dinard, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Foujita, le Maître japonais de Montparnasse, June 27 - September 25, 2004, no. 22
Chilleurs-aux-Bois, Château de Chamerolles, Foujita et ses amis de Montparnasse, June 30 - September 19, 2010
Chilleurs-aux-Bois, Château de Chamerolles, Femmes artistes. Passions, muses et modèles, June 2 - September 2, 2012
Shizuoka, Shizuoka city museum of art (travelling exhibition in Japan), Léonard Foujita et Paris, 1913-1931 : le centenaire de son arrivée à Paris : Paris accueille et glorifie Foujita, 2013-2014, no. 19

Literature

Sylvie Buisson, Giorgio Guastalla & Guido Guastalla, La Scuola di Parigi e Modigliani, Livorno, 1989, illustrated p. 89
Tsuguharu-Léonard Foujita et l'Ecole de Paris
, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée de Montmartre & Tokyo, Museum of Art-Ecole de Paris, April 5 - September 30, 1991, illustrated no. 5
Sylvie Buisson, Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita, Paris, 2001, no. 17.88, illustrated p. 155
Foujita, le Maître japonais de Montparnasse, exhibition catalogue, Dinard, Palais des Arts et du Festival, June 27 - September 25, 2004, illustrated p. 49
Foujita et ses amis de Montparnasse, exhibition catalogue, Chilleurs-aux-Bois, Château de Chamerolles, June 30 - September 19, 2010, illustrated p. 64
Léonard Foujita et Paris, 1913-1931 : le centenaire de son arrivée à Paris : Paris accueille et glorifie Foujita, exhibition catalogue, Shizuoka, Shizuoka city museum of art (travelling exhibition in Japan), 2013-2014, illustrated p. 60

Condition

Executed on thin wove paper, laid down on card. There is a pinhole to the upper left corner. The sheet is slightly light-stained. There are a few faint creases to the upper part of the right edge. This work is in good condition.
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