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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 6, 2010 | Pierre Berge & Associes | Paris | ART PREMIER ET MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN | 301 | $****** - ****** | The Unknown |
paintings
95 x 76.5 cm (37.4 x 30.12 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right Countersigned, dated and located on the back
TSUGUHARU LÉONARD FOUJITA (1886-1968)
The Unknown, 1922 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right Countersigned, dated and located on the back. H: 95 cm W: 76.5 cm FOUJITA, PORTRAIT OF GASTON Périer (1922) As mentioned by Sylvie Buisson in her work ?Foujita et ses amis de Montparnasse" with regard to the reproduction of the work entitled the ?Portrait of an amateur? (p.78-79): “Foujita alludes to the art lover"s passion for Negro art, still in vogue at that time. The cult book by Blaise Cendrars, The Negro Anthology, next to him behind him is an African sculpture, with a fanciful appearance; but the precision with which the Japanese painter describes the environment contrasts with the vision of objects according to his friend Soutine, in particular, but also on the part of most of the artists of the School of Paris, whose expressionism has nothing to do with the rigor of Foujita. » However, it is interesting to know that it is in fact the portrait of Gaston Périer, son-in-law of General Thys, well known for the construction of the first railway in Central Africa. As administrator of the Banque d"Outremer and manager of numerous Congolese companies, his portrait was to be exhibited at the Bank. From then on, his two sons, Odilon-Jean the poet and Gilbert the patron, great lovers of contemporary art, convinced him not to contact an academic portraitist, but rather an artist whose fame was growing in Paris, in the Foujita occurrence. Unfortunately, once the portrait was created and exhibited in a Parisian gallery, the model was ridiculed by a facetious critic. Following what he considered to be an insult, Gaston Périer preferred to get rid of it and gave it to his daughter-in-law, not forgetting to attach a plaque to the frame bearing the words “THE UNKNOWN”. An enigmatic character with an inimitable and singular character, Foujita, Japanese by birth but Parisian at heart, remains one of the major artists of Montparnasse during the Roaring Twenties.
