FOUJITA – A CAT JOINS THE MUSEUM IN SUMMER 2025
The Château-Musée de Cagnes, represented by its director Emeric Pinkowicz, curator of the Cagnes city museums, pre-empted at Biarritz-Enchères, on Saturday, August 9, from Élisabeth Maréchaux, the sale’s expert, to our great delight, this painting by Foujita depicting a black and white cat asleep in the corner of a room paved with Provençal terracotta tiles, […]
The Great Reclining Nude of Strasbourg
In 1953, in his studio on Rue Campagne-Première, Foujita revisited the Nude from a live model, a theme he had not addressed since his return to Paris. These are preparatory studies for large oil-on-canvas compositions, which he drew in charcoal on thick sheets of paper, and not in pencil, as in the 1930s, on fine […]
FOUJITA’S LINE at the Hôtel DROUOT auctions in Paris.
This three-quarter bust of a young blonde woman was featured in the second Volume of the Catalogue Raisonné of Foujita’s Work, published by ACR éditions in 2001, page 297 no. 30.70. It reappeared 22 years later, identical, yet with one notable difference: its partially erased signature. Was it an unfortunate excess of cleaning or accidental? […]
Juliette Gréco’s Wedding Gift
Muse of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, indomitable enchantress, free and avant-garde woman, Juliette Gréco, with her inimitable voice, continuous curiosity, and unalterable talent, has accompanied our lives. On June 25, 1953, Foujita was invited to her wedding with actor Philippe Lemaire. He offered her a highly elegant brush-and-ink drawing; it was recently put up for sale by auctioneers […]
FLOWERS INSPIRED BY 17TH CENTURY FLEMISH ART IN THE PARIS ART MARKET.
The end of the season is remarkable for Foujita, whose works continue to achieve great success among collectors at auctions worldwide, particularly in Paris, at Drouot. This bouquet of anemones had been exhibited in 1956 at the Galerie Paul Pétridès, 56 rue La Boétie. Its exhibition number is inscribed on the back of the stretcher […]
A Foujita masterpiece, soon to be offered for public sale in London.
The large painting “Nude with Crossed Hands”, Oil on canvas, 25 F, 81×65 cm The work, created in 1924 in Paris after one of the many models who posed in Foujita’s studio, was on display in Paris, at Bonhams, 4 rue de la Paix, on Wednesday, September 11, Thursday, September 12, and Friday, September 13, […]
FOUJITA / SANYU Muses & Models Hong Kong
The exhibition Foujita / Sanyu Muses and Models, which took place at Phillips from March 19 to 30 in Paris, continues in Hong Kong, also at Phillips, from May 18 to 31, 2019.
PHILLIPS PARIS – 46 rue du Bac in Paris (Bac metro station) FOUJITA and SANYU, March 22 at 7 PM, two heavyweights of the Asian market
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Foujita and Sanyu: Debate and Exhibition Just steps from the Maillol Museum, one year after the highly successful Foujita exhibition, which left a lasting impression on the neighborhood, the renowned auction house Phillips invites Sylvie Buisson to present Foujita’s muses and models. It’s a vast program to summarize in 25 minutes, but the exercise is […]