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Tsuguharu Leonard Foujita
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Tsuguharu Léonard FOUJITA (1886-1968) Sketch of a baby Graphite pencil and ink on paper Bears the stamp of the succession Kimiyo Foujita in the lower right corner 15,7 x 11,8 inch Provenance: Succession Kimiyo Foujita (1910-2009), wife of the artist, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Cornette-de-Saint-Cyr, December 9, 2013, part. III, lot 260 (iii). Born in Tokyo in 1886, Tsuguharu Foujita studied French and Western art at the School of Fine Arts in his native city before moving to France in 1913. He frequented the Montparnasse district and evolved with the painters of the first School of Paris, such as Amadeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and Chaïm Soutine, with whom he developed a very personal pictorial language. His life and work are situated on the border between two cultures and the artist managed to achieve an original synthesis between Japanese tradition and European painting. Foujita exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne in 1919, where his paintings, endowed with great sensitivity, were praised by the critics. His independent character, in the vanguard of fashions and ideas, quickly put him in the forefront of modern Japanese artists. He broke with the ancestral customs of his country of origin while forging an eccentric personality with a singular physiognomy, making him a key figure of the Roaring Twenties. His self-portraits will make famous his marked fringe and his round glasses circled with black. In the 1920's and 30's, his compositions became well known in social circles and the artist received numerous commissions. He undertook a series of trips to the Americas and Asia and made a triumphant return to Japan before returning permanently to France in 1950 where his work remained faithful to figuration, on the fringe of post-war artistic trends. An excellent draughtsman, Foujita was particularly famous for his portraits and landscapes, as well as for his representations of female models. In addition to his studies of nativity scenes and mother and child, the subject of early childhood is very present in the artist's drawings. The drawing we present is a quick sketch of a naked boy, standing with his right arm extended. Only the silhouette of the toddler is represented without any attention paid to the face whose single line draws the outline.
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