LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA (1886-1968)
LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA (1886-1968)
LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA (1886-1968)
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LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA (1886-1968)

Petite fille à la fleur (Little Girl with Flower)

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LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA (1886-1968)
Petite fille à la fleur (Little Girl with Flower)
signed in Japanese, signed again and dated ‘Foujita 1929’ (lower left);
signed in Japanese, signed again and dated ‘Foujita 1929’ (on the stretcher)
oil and pen and ink on canvas
35.2 x 26.6 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Painted in 1929
Provenance
Private collection, France
Literature
N Shimada & N Senzoku (ed.), Exposition Léonard Foujita, exh. cat., Art Life, Tokyo, 1986 (illustrated, plate 53).
S. Buisson, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita , Paris, 2001 (illustrated, plate 29.89, p.281).
Maillol Museum, Foujita: Peindre dans les Années Folles, exh. cat., Paris, 2018 (illustrated, p.123).
Exhibited
Tokyo, Odakyu Grande Galerie, Exposition Léonard Foujita, 31 October – 25 November 1986. This exhibition later travelled to Osaka, Galerie d’Art Daimaru, 3 – 13 January 1987; Kyoto, Galerie d’art Daimaru, 22 January – 3 February 1987; Hiroshima, Musée Préfectoral d’Art de Hiroshima, 7 February – 1 March 1987; Fukuoka, Musée Préfectoral d’Art de Fukuoka, 3 March – 5 April 1987.
Paris, Museé de Montmartre, Léonard Foujita, 1987.
Paris, Museé de Montmartre, Modigliani et les ateliers de Montmartre, 1992.
Paris, Maillol Museum, Foujita : Peindre dans les Années Folles, March - July 2018.
Further Details
Sylvie Buisson has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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