LÉONARD-TSUGUHARU FOUJITA (1886-1968) FEMME ACCOUDÉE,... Lot 11

LÉONARD-TSUGUHARU FOUJITA (1886-1968) FEMME ACCOUDÉE, 1 926 Ink on paper Signed and dated middle right Ink on paper; signed and dated middle right 57 X 44,5 CM - 22 1/2 X 17 1/2 IN. Madame Sylvie Buisson has confirmed the authenticity of this work. PROVENANCE Tokyo, Galerie Kawamatsu. Sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 February 2005, lot 293. Sale, Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Los Angeles, 18 November 2018, lot 18. Acquired during this sale by the present owner. Private collection, France. BIBLIOGRAPHY Sylvie Buisson, T.L. Foujita: Inédits, À l'encre rouge - Archives artistiques, Paris: 2007, no. 26.213.D, p. 156 (reproduced). "Foujita does not cheat, he only draws the truth that the model sends back to him, his soul more specifically, but he only retains the marrow of it, evacuating any ephemeral anecdote. The essence of the model is in the line, not drawn or painted with lines, boundaries or contours. Foujita's art is different from what the West considers a line or an outline. The line is alive." Sylvie Buisson, Foujita: Painting in the Roaring Twenties, Mercator Fund, 2018.