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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 23, 2022 | Est-Ouest Auctions | Tokyo | Contemporary & Modern Art | 134 | $****** - ****** | PORTRAIT STUDY |
paintings
16 x 21 cm (6.3 x 8.27 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated on the lower left, signed, dated and labeled on the wooden frame reverse
Japan Fuji Television Gallery, Japan Marlborough Fine Art, London
FOUJITA Leonard-Tsuguharu's work is characterized by milky white colours, black lines inspired by Japanese paintings, nude women, cats, and self-portraits as the subject matter of many of his works. Foujita gained great fame as an artist who painted beautiful women and cats in a highly original style.In 1921, at the 14th Salon d'Automne in Paris, Foujita was in the limelight with his unique "milky skin" and the "black line" that was praised as magically beautiful that Westerners had never seen. He suddenly became famous in Paris. From the 1920s to the 1930s, when this work was drawn, it was the heyday of Foujita in the School of Paris, and the contours of the face and body, fingertips, eyes, and hair were all drawn with smooth, uninterrupted lines. Foujita is a painter who studied lines throughout his life and continued to stick to them. Powerful lines drawn with ink, lines flowing softly on paper with light ink are his characteristic. Many Japanese artists left the line drawing after the war and left behind works of colour and abstract, but Foujita consistently sticks to line drawing. He continued to bring out the beauty of delicate line drawings in France. The outstanding technique of drawing lines with a Japanese brush attracted the interest of Picasso and Modigliani, who were active in Paris at the same time. They stayed at Foujita's solo exhibition venue for a long time, observing the artist's drawing in detail. Foujita has left the following words regarding the lines he draws. "My hope is to draw it intuitively by being alone with the object and myself before drawing. In other words, the line created from intuition is more accurate and infinite than the line that was thought as corrected. And I think there are many more things that appeal to the viewer. "
