JAPANESE ART FOUJITA SIGNED ORIGINAL DRY POINT 1925 Start Price USD 7,000.00 Current Price USD 7,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, July 05, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Location Madrid See more about 'JAPANESE ART FOUJITA SIGNED ORIGINAL DRY POINT 1925' Description nousavons Store FREE DHL / SEUR WORLDWIDE SHIPPINGARTIST:Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA [1886-1968]TITLE:La Main de FoujitaMEDIUM:Original Dry point / Pointe-sèche / Puntasecca / Punta secaIMAGE SIZE:3 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in (9 x 12 cm.) SHEET SIZE:6 in x 7 1/2 in (15 x 19 cm.)FRAME SIZE:20 in x 22 in (51 x 55 cm.)SIGNATURE: Hand signed in pencil by Foujita in Japanese and French, in the lower right corner.Signed in the stone by Foujita in Japanese (lower right corner of image) and French (upper left corner of the image).YEAR: Dated in pencil by Foujita in 1925, in the lower right corner. EDITION:Numbered in pencil 20/30, in the lower left corner.CONDITION:This work is in excellent condition offering intense porcelain-like hues of greys (see photographs). CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ & BIBLIOGRAPHY:1. Sylvie Buisson. La Vie et l'œuvre de Léonard-Tsuguhary Foujita. Paris, ACR Édition, 2001. Number 25.70 (reproduced in page 501). 2. Jean Selz. Foujita. Paris, Flammarion (Librairie Ernest), 1980. Number 25.70 (reproduced in page 76). EXPOSITIONS: Hommage à Foujita. Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 1968. Number 21: La Main de Fouijta. FRAMING: Conservation framed with archival materials and museum quality, this work is set in a Japanese-Style gold moulding with a delicate texture. The muted gold hues complement the bright and lovely greys within the work. Completed with light blue mat and a matching gold inner fillet, this work is set behind an archival Plexiglas® cover. SHIPMENT: FREE DHL / SEUR WORLDWIDE SHIPPING Tsuguharu  Foujita  Birth Year : 1886Death Year : 1967Country : Japan (Tokyo)Tsugouharu 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. Foujita had his first exhibition in Paris in 1917 and by 1924 he was one of the most important exhibitors at the Salon d' Automne. In the same year he was elected a member of the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts for he was the first Japanese artist to free that country's art of its legendary and classic image. Foujita was then selected to decorate the Japanese House at the Cit� Universitaire in Paris. He traveled to England, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the United States where he had a studio until 1939. He returned to Paris at the outbreak of World War II and remained there until 1941 after which he spent nine years in Tokyo. 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.Biografía de Tsuguharo Foujita Tokio, 1886-1968 Pintor y grabador franco-japonés, está reconocido como una de las principales figures introductoras en la cultura europea de la influencia del arte japonés. Se formó en la Escuela Imperial de Bellas Artes de Tokio, y pronto consiguió el éxito con sus obras. En 1913 se trasladó a París, centro de la cultura occidental en la época, para aprender más de la fértil comunidad artística que allí se estableció. Fue en París donde comenzó a emplear como pionero la técnica de utilizar impresiones estampadas de color junto con pinceladas en sus obras. En un principio expresionista, las obras de Foujita a menudo combinan las técnicas europeas y japonesas e incluyen paisajes, figuras e imágenes de gatos. Es muy conocido por sus frescos en la Capilla de Nuestra Señora de la Paz, en Reims. Place a Bid!