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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 318 | $****** - ****** | Deux Amies |
paintings
81 x 54.3 cm (31.88 x 21.38 in)
oil and pen and black ink on canvas
signed, signed again in Japanese and dated "Foujita 1929" (lower left); signed, signed again in Japanese, dated, and inscribed "1929 Paris Foujita" (on the stretcher)
Private collection.
Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris (by January 1984).
Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1986.
Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Maîtres impressionnistes et modernes , April-June 1984, no. 10 (illustrated in color).
Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Tokyo, Kiyoharu Hakuryoku and Kobe, Museum of Art, Le Bateau-Lavoir et La Ruche: Montmartre et Montparnasse , 1994, pp. 94 and 140 (illustrated in color, p. 94).
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art and Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Léonard Foujita , March-October 2006, pp. 64, 160-161 and 203, no. 36 (illustrated in color, p. 64).
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Collection Viewpoint "mite!" The art of Conversation , March-July 2007.
Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Utsunomiya Museum of Art; Taitō, The Ueno Royal Museum; Fukuoka Art Museum and Sendai Mediatheque, L éonard Foujita , July 2008-June 2009, pp. 50 and 257, no. C1-22 (illustrated in color, p. 50).
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Re-Collection: Rhapsody in Color , July-December 2013, no. 4.
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art; Iwaki City Art Museum; Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum and Akita Museum of Art, Léonard Foujita et ses modèles , September 2016-January 2017, pp. 62, and 199, no. 22 (illustrated in color; titled Les deux amies ).
Fukuoka Art Museum, Leonard Foujita and the Textiles he Loved , October-December 2020.
S. and D. Buisson, La vie et l"œuvre de Leonard-Tsuguharu Foujita , Paris, 1987, vol. I, p. 410, no. 29.48 (illustrated).
Selected Works from Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art , Sakura City, 2022, p. 38 (illustrated in color).
LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA (1886-1968)
Deux Amies
signed, signed again in Japanese and dated "Foujita 1929" (lower left); signed, signed again in Japanese, dated, and inscribed "1929 Paris Foujita" (on the stretcher)
oil and pen and black ink on canvas
31 7/8 x 21 3/8 in. (81 x 54.4 cm.)
Executed in 1929
