拍品 251
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TSUGUHARU FOUJITA | Deux fillettes à la poupée

估價
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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描述

  • Foujita, Tsuguharu -- Albert Fournier
  • Deux fillettes à la poupée
  • Signed Foujita (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 18 1/8 by 14 1/2 in.
  • 46.2 by 38.2 cm
  • Painted in 1954.

來源

Private Collection, Paris (and sold: Sotheby's, London, December 5, 1990, lot 154)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

展覽

Paris, Musée de Montmartre & Tokyo, Museum of Art École de Paris, Foujita et l'école de Paris, 1991, no. 43, illustrated in the catalogue
Dinard, Palais des arts et du festival, Foujita, le maître japonais de Montparnasse, 2004, no. 134, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Valence, Centro Cultural Bancaja et Barcelone, Museu Diocesà, Foujita entre Oriente y Occidente, 2005, no. 89, illustrated in color in the catalogue (incorrectly dated 1956)
Paris, Galerie Felix Vercel, 40e anniversaire de la disparition de Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, 2007-08, no. 5, illustrated in color in the catalogue

出版

Sylvie Buisson, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, vol. II, Paris, 2001, no. 54.38, illustrated p. 438

Condition

The work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. There is hairline craquelure throughout. There is a small area of lifting in the white pigment to the right of the arm of the girl in red. Under Uv light, there are a few very fine strokes of inpainting in the background in the upper right quadrant and a couple very fine strokes in the extreme lower left corner.
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拍品資料及來源

In 1930, Foujita concluded his first Paris period, returning for a second time in the 1950s. Paris at the time was already changed, and Foujita’s paintings had likewise taken on an entirely different style. Robert Rey notes, "in Asia, every childhood is sacred... it is by instinct that Foujita transforms the children of France into fairies. Consider what becomes of Cosette from Vicor Hugo's Les Misérables, a book the artist perhaps never read... a little girl unburdened by the slightest misery" (quoted in Sylvie Buisson, Foujita et ses amis du Montparnasse, Paris, 2010, p. 134). The artist's modernity and originality reside in precisely this fusion of the formal training of his Japanese heritage, the finesse of his monochromatic lines, with the reinterpreted iconography and luminous palette of his adoptive country.