Foujita’s Icon: Halfway Between Sacred and Profane

Published on 08 July 2022, by Sophie Reyssat

Auction on 15 August 2022 - 14:30 (CEST) - 73, boulevard de La Croisette - 06400 Cannes

The artist found his path to the avant-garde at the crossroads of the Japanese print tradition and Italian Renaissance models. A portrait.

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968), Jeune femme au voile (Young Woman in a Veil),... Foujita’s Icon: Halfway Between Sacred and Profane

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968), Jeune femme au voile (Young Woman in a Veil), c. 1950, gouache, watercolor and Indian ink on paper covered with gold leaf, signed, 23 x 17.5 cm/9 x 6.9 in.
Estimate: €50,000/80,000
Fondation Foujita/ADAGP, Paris, 2022

"When you see this piece from a distance, it looks like an exquisite oil on canvas," says Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita specialist Sylvie Buisson. But it is actually a work on paper executed with great precision in the spirit of the 16th-century early Italian Renaissance. Upon his arrival in Paris in 1913, the artist found inspiration in the…

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