Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita

Le Mexicain barbu

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October 17, 01:56 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita

1886 - 1968

Le Mexicain barbu

signed Foujita and in Japanese, dated 1933 Mexico (centre left) and dedicated a mon ami Fernandez de Castro (upper left)

watercolour and brush and ink on paper

36.8 by 33 cm. 14½ by 13 in.

Framed: 54 by 50 cm. 21¼ by 19¾ in.

Executed in Mexico in 1933.

Fernandez de Castro, Mexico (acquired as a gift from the artist)

Acquired by the present owner circa 1985

Sylvie Buisson, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, vol. II, Paris, 2001, no. 33.56, p. 337, illustrated