Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)

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34,5 x 26,2 cm (55 x 44,4 cm R.)
Deux enfants (Two Children). 1929. Colour etching with aquatint and roulette on paper. Lower right signed in pencil: Foujita. Lower left numbered: 62/100. Published as part of the etching series “Les Enfants”, Éditions Artistiques Apollo, Paris 1929. Mounted in a decorative frame with a passe-partout under glass.
From an old European private collection - Signs of age, minor wear
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886, Tokyo - 1968, Zurich) was a Japanese-French painter, who in the 1920s rose to fame as an eccentric icon of the Parisian bohemian scene. He developed a unique style by blending traditional Japanese ink techniques with Western oil painting - a fusion particularly evident in his delicate studies of cats and female nudes set against a milky-white background. Following his naturalization in France, he converted to Catholicism, adopted the name Léonard, and - with the Foujita Chapel in Reims, which he designed - left behind his final masterpiece