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Tsuguji Foujita (Leonard Foujita), artist
French (b. Japan), 1886 - 1968
Child in Hood in the Snow, circa 1930
Color woodcut
37.1 x 28.8 cm (image)
Gift of George Hopper Fitch 1986.1.222

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Artist Biography: Prints printed in Japan and stored with modern Japanese artists.~Also known as Tsuguharu Foujita. Born in Tokyo. Graduate of what is now Tokyo University in 1910. Lived primarily in France from 1913 to World War II, though he made frequent trips to Japan. Friend of the Paris school of painters between the wars. Returned to Japan during World War II, leaving in 1949 and settling in France in 1950. French citizen in 1955. Adopted name of Leonard at time of his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1966. Died in Z¸rich in 1968. ~Adapted Japnese brush techniques to his use of western oil paints, speciualizing in images of cats and women. Japanese-born painter who settled in France; died of cancer in Zurich. Foujita reached Paris in 1913 and hobnobed with the brilliant and the bizarre in the Montmartre of the 20s. He painted cats by the thousands and almost as many catlike women, achieving the first real fusion of Oriental brushwork and Western oils.

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