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 the section dedicated to Foujita’s close Japanese painter friends who lived in Paris.
Five exhibition venues:
Paramita Museum Okada Cultural Foundation, Mie Feb 1 – March 30, 2025
Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo April 12 – June 22, 2025
Koiso Memorial of Art, Kobe June 29 – Sept 19 2025
Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima October 3 – November 9, 2025
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima January 24 – March 29, 2026
Exhibition introduction on the Sompo Museum website, Tokyo:
This exhibition introduces the works of Foujita Tsuguharu (Léonard Foujita, 1886–1968) through seven perspectives (passions). Under the supervision of Ms. Sylvie Buisson, who is known as the foremost researcher of Foujita, his works have been interpreted into seven passions, namely “Lui-même (self-expression)”, “Le Ciel (scenery)”,
“L’Avant-garde (avant-garde)”, “L’Est et l’ouest (east and west)”, “La Femme (women)”, “Les Enfants (children)”, and “Les Anges et le paradis (angels and heaven)”. Furthermore, there is also a secondary exhibition of works by nine Japanese artists with a deep connection to Foujita, such as Togo Seiji, Kawashima Riichiro, and Ebihara Kinosuke, giving further insight into the role played by Foujita in his time. This exhibition contains about 150 works, such as oil paintings, woodblock prints, and materials, gathered from within and outside of Japan including from private collections.
*Please check the list of works here.
