Lot 227
  • 227

Tsuguharu Foujita

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
  • Jeune fille au chat
  • Signed Foujita and inscribed Paris (lower left)
  • Watercolor and pen and ink on paper laid down on card
  • 12 3/4 by 9 1/2 in.
  • 32.3 by 24.1 cm

Provenance

Paul Pétridès, Paris
Hemispheres Galleries, Florida
Acquired from the above

Condition

This work is in very good condition. Executed on cream wove paper laid down on card. There is a mat stain around the perimeter which is wider at the top and left edges and comes into the image at bottom center about 1 cm. There are some losses to the extreme right edge, but far from the image. Otherwise fine.
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