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 7 PASSIONS OF FOUJITA”: Sylvie Buisson’s signature exhibition touring Japan from February 1, 2025 to March 29, 2026
General Curatorship: Sylvie Buisson, art historian and international expert on Léonard Foujita. Exhibition production and organization: Brain-Trust Inc., Tokyo – with the collaboration of Momoe Suga. Catalogue directed by Sylvie Buisson, with Casimir Buisson, art historian and expert on Léonard Foujita, and Midori Yanai, art historian and former curator of the Meguro Museum, Tokyo, for […]
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 […]
FOUJITA EXHIBITS IN PARIS / Paris of Modernity 1905-1925 at the Petit-Palais
Following “Romantic Paris (1815-1858)” and “Paris 1900, the Spectacle City,” the Petit Palais dedicates the final part of its trilogy to “(The) Paris of Modernity (1905-1925)” from November 14, 2023 to April 14, 2024: an interesting and very comprehensive exhibition that pays tribute to the protagonists of Modernity in Paris, the world center of all […]
BRITTANY, A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION, a beautiful exhibition in Tokyo from April to June 2023
Sylvie Buisson welcomes Anne Watanabe, the famous Japanese actress, at La Coupole to give her a tour and talk to her about Foujita, a painting by whom will be featured in the upcoming exhibition dedicated to Brittany at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo from April to June 2023. The exhibition planned in […]
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.
It reappeared 22 years later, identical, yet with one notable difference: its partially erased signature. Was it an unfortunate excess of cleaning or accidental? It is difficult to say. In any case, this clearly demonstrates Foujita’s use of India ink when signing his work. The artist managed to blend water and oil to create the […]
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 […]
Lecture by Sylvie Buisson in Aix-les-Bains on October 7, 2021: “FOUJITA ART OBJECT(S)”
