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, […]
Paris 1957, Jacques Becker hires Foujita for the filming of “Montparnasse 19”
1957, Foujita, Anouk Aimée, Gérard Philippe during filming. Chana Orloff can be seen at the bottom of the photograph taken on the evening of the film’s cocktail party, September 17, 1957. “MONTPARNASSE 19” (THE LOVERS OF MONTPARNASSE) Release date: April 4, 1958 Director: Jacques Becker Screenplay: Jacques Becker, Max Ophüls, and Henri Jeanson, based on […]
In March: Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita Resides in Pyla
On this day // It was in March: Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita resides in Pyla #Bassin d’Arcachon #La Teste de Buch Published on March 26, 2024 by Fanny Peyrazat “The painter Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886–1968), who was one of the most fashionable artists of the School of Paris in the 1920s, went to Japan during the […]
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 HONORED AT THE PUSHKIN MUSEUM
From July 17 to October 12, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow is dedicating an exhibition in its wing for 20th-century painting and sculpture. This exhibition is dedicated to the women muses and women artists of the great Montparnasse era, accompanied by the male artists in their circle, for whom they served as muses and inspirers. […]
Foujita’s Dahlias are a hundred years old.
A hundred years ago, in 1921, Foujita developed what he considered a revolutionary technique: coating the background of his oil paintings with a thick, smooth, white paste, which allowed him to draw fine lines with a very thin brush, using black paint diluted with oil or water, on this smooth surface, as porous as Japanese […]
The American friend, Man Ray, courts Kiki de Montparnasse, Foujita’s favorite model
Man Ray (1890 – 1976) photographs “The artist Foujita” circa 1922 – Gelatin silver negative on glass plate support – 18 x 13 cm Dation, 1994 – Centre Pompidou (Inventory number: AM 1994-393 (5115)
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 […]
Sylvie Buisson and her love for Japan
Deeply drawn to Japanese sensibility, Sylvie Buisson first studied Japanese Art and Japanese culture during her Plastic Arts and Art History studies in Paris. However, nothing compared to staying in Japan, in Tokyo, Kyoto of course, and throughout all its provinces. This became possible through the training internships of her aikido-ka and kendo-ka husband, starting […]
In collaboration with Paradox Editions, in Paris
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”615″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”614″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Paradox Editions – “Beyond the Frame” Collection Paradox Editions launches the “Beyond the Frame” collection with two works dedicated to two major artists from the great era of Montparnasse, Marie Vassilieff and Tsuguharu-Léonard Foujita, and entrusts its direction to Sylvie Buisson. This collection, dedicated to figures in the art […]