Tsuguharu Foujita: French Railroad, Normandy

The Influence of French Painting would not exist without Foujita, said the headline of the Nouvelles de Versailles on March 11, 1987. The story told of the decision made by the Versailles Court of Appeals in the suit, by Mrs Kimiyo Foujita, trying to prevent the publication of the first ...more

The most Parisian of Japanese painters became Leonard Foujita when christianed in 1959. He was born in Japan in the wood and paper home of a high ranking samurai family. And died christened and French after a long life in France. East is EEast and West is West, and never ...more

Lots 101-237; Sale Results slipped in; unpaginated; color illus.; Index. Multiple lots by Braque, Cezanne, de Chirico, Cross, Dali, Degas, van Dongen, Dufy, Foujita, Kandinsky, Klee, Laurencin, Leger, Magritte, Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Moore, Picasso, Pissarro, Redon, Renoir, Rouault, Schiele, de Segonzac, Signac, Tanguy, Toulouse-Lautrec, Utrillo, de Vlaminck. ...more

Includes property from a Scandinavian collector and Anthony Roland, from the Roland Collection. Lots 300-407; 139 pages; Index. Color illus. except for the pencil and charcoal studies. Multiple works offered by Chagall, Foujita [9], Klimt, Laurencin [8], Leger, Magritte, Matisse, Picasso, Utrillo, Vlaminck ... ...more