Lot 14
  • 14

Tsuguharu Foujita

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 EUR
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Description

  • Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
  • Femme au miroir, 1922
  • watercolour and gold leaf on paper
  • Signed in Japanese and signed Foujita lower right; signed in Japonese, signed, situated and dated in French Foujita Paris 1922 on the reverse
  • 25,9 x 21,6 cm ; 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 in

Exhibited

Tokyo, Odakyu Grande Galerie (travelling exhibition in Japan), Léonard Foujita, 1986, no. 16
Tokyo, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Léonard Foujita, 1886-1968, November 12 1988 - February 21 1989, no. 16
Paris, Musée de Montmartre; Tokyo, Museum of Art Ecole de Paris & Séoul, Musée Youndai, Tsuguharu-Léonard Foujita et l'Ecole de Paris, April 5 - September 30, 1991
Tokyo, Tokyo Art Institute, Le Bateau-Lavoir et La Ruche : Montmartre et Montparnasse, 1994
Aosta, Musée d'archéologie, Montparnasse L'Europe des artistes 1915-1945, 1999, no. 60
Paris, Musée du Montparnasse, Foujita, Youki, Desnos, un amour surréaliste, April 7 - July 29, 2001
Dinard, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Foujita, le Maître japonais de Montparnasse, June 27 - September 25, 2004, no. 39
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. 44

Literature

Léonard Foujita, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, Odakyu Grande Galerie (travelling exhibition in Japan), 1986, no. 16
Léonard Foujita, 1886-1968, exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, November 12, 1988 - February 21, 1989, illustrated p. 34
Sylvie Buisson, La Scuola di Parigi e Modigliani, Livorno, 1989, p. 95
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. 11
Le Bateau-Lavoir et La Ruche : Montmartre et Montparnasse, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, Tokyo Art Institute, 1994, illustrated p. 93
Montparnasse L'Europe des artistes 1915-1945, exhibition catalogue, Aosta, Musée d'archéologie, 1999, illustrated p. 101
Foujita, le Maître japonais de Montparnasse, exhibition catalogue, Dinard, Palais des Arts et du Festival, June 27 - September 25, 2004, illustrated p. 65
Foujita et ses amis de Montparnasse, exhibition catalogue, Chilleurs-aux-Bois, Château de Chamerolles, June 30 - September 19, 2010, illustrated nn
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. 91

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on cardboard (signed by the artist on the verso). The extreme edges are deckled. There are some faint creases to the all four corners. This work is in very good condition.
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