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Tsuguharu Foujita

Tsuguharu Foujita (1886 - 1968) was active/lived in France, Japan, Switzerland.  Tsuguharu Foujita is known for Adult-like child portrait, modernist animal, figure and still life painting.

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A French-Japanese painter and printmaker credited with being the "first Japanese artist to free that country's art of its legendary and classic image", Tsuguharu Foujita spent most of his career in Paris, where he was associated with revolutionary artists including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Rousseau.  However, Foujita often returned to his native county and was there for nine years during World War II.  After that, he returned to Paris where he served as President of the Association of Japanese Artists.

His painting style was primarily expressionist, although he did some realism as well.  After his conversion to Catholicism, he did frescoes for the Chapel of Our Lady of Peace in Reims.  He also did the decoration at the Japanese House at Cité Universitaire in Paris. 

In Tokyo, Japan, as a youth, he studied at the Imperial School of Fine Art, and received much recognition including the purchase of one of his pa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3053 characters.]  Artist bio

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La fête d'anniversaire , 1949

Tsuguharu Foujita

Lot 18
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NU AU CHAT , 1930

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Lot 1035
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Nu sur un lit, avec un chien (Reclining Nude with A Small Dog) , 1921

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Lot 135
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Jeune fille au chat , 1956

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Lot 39
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FEMME AU CHAT, PORTRAIT DE GHITA , 1926

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Lot 1011
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JEUNE FEMME AU PETIT CHIEN , 1929

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Lot 1026
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