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Tsugouharu Leonardo Foujita Printer Proof Signed Framed

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Tsugouharu Leonardo Foujita Printer Proof Signed Framed
Artist: Tsugouharu (Leonardo) Foujita - Edogawa Tokyo 1886-1968 Zurich (French/Japanese)Title: Two Children Carrying Bread and Milk, circa 1954Medium: Lithograph on vellum paperSignature: In pencil, lower right corner; signed FoujitaEdition: Printers Proof on vellumImage size: 13 1/2" x 18 1/2"Frame size: 23 1/2" x 28 1/2"Condition: Very good, some wear to the frameBiographyTsugouharu Foujita was born in Japan and studied at the Imperial School of Fine Arts in Tokyo. By 1910 he had received several medals and prizes; the Japanese Emperor even purchased one of his paintings. On a trip to Korea in 1911, he was asked to paint the king. Foujita seemed destined for a career in the Orient until he traveled to London in 1912 and then, in 1913, went to live in Paris. He discovered European contemporary art, much as the French, in the nineteenth-century, had discovered Japanese prints.  He then returned to Paris where he continued to paint and occupied himself with charitable functions as president of the Association of Japanese Artists. Foujita died in Zurich at the age of eighty-one and was buried in the cathedral city of Rheims, where he had decorated a chapel after embracing Catholicism. As one of the oldest members of the School of Paris, Foujita was a friend to Braque, Picasso,  and Rousseau, all of whom subtly influenced his style. Foujita bridged the gap between Eastern and Western art in his narrative works, executed in a clear, flowing line and with paint applied in thin, very smooth layers of soft colors tending to grays, mauves, pale ochers, and blacks. Even in the liveliest of his narratives his mood and effects are dreamily quiet, almost timeless in their clarity. *retrieved from: http://www.dropbears.com/a/art/biography/Tsuguharu_Foujita.html