Gentleness and Melancholy
“Melancholy is a disease that consists of seeing things as they are”; it is with this relentless lucidity, so characteristic of him, that Gérard de Nerval penned this sentence. Foujita, in his own way, also expresses himself on the subject of melancholy through drawing; and the power of his calligraphic line, of his thought-sculpting, magnificently […]
