Sylvie Buisson
Sylvie Buisson has been compiling the Catalogue Général Raisonné of Léonard Foujita since the early 1980s, while also working through exhibitions and publications to promote and enhance understanding of Foujita, and, more generally, of his friends grouped under the term ‘École de Paris’ (School of Paris) in Montmartre and Montparnasse during the twentieth century.
She has regularly been appointed curator of exhibitions in France, Europe, and Japan since 1985.
She has been a member of the Union Française des Experts en objets d’art (French Union of Art Experts) since 1989.
Sylvie Buisson also served as delegated curator at the Musée du Montparnasse in Paris from 2001 until the museum’s closure in 2013.
Since 2018, she has presided over the Union Française des Experts en objets d’art (French Union of Art Experts) and became Vice-President of the European Company of Art Experts in 2023.
Casimir Buisson
His training as a painting restorer at Palazzo Spinelli, Istituto per l’Arte e il Restauro, in Florence, Italy, under the direction of professors affiliated with the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti, provides him with an excellent scientific analysis of Foujita’s works, whose techniques are similar to those of the Italian Renaissance masters.
He conducts a systematic study of Foujita’s creative processes.