Lot Essay
Sold with a photo-certificate from the Bijutsu Club, no. 91-397 and dated Tokyo, 25 November 1991.
Les trois danseuses
Details
Tsuguji Foujita (1886-1968)
Les trois danseuses
signed 'T. Foujita' and again in Japanese (lower left)
watercolour, gouache, pen and ink and gold leaf on paper laid down on board
14 3/4 x 18in. (37.5 x 46.1cm.)
Executed circa 1918
Les trois danseuses
signed 'T. Foujita' and again in Japanese (lower left)
watercolour, gouache, pen and ink and gold leaf on paper laid down on board
14 3/4 x 18in. (37.5 x 46.1cm.)
Executed circa 1918
Provenance
Acquired by the late husband of the present owner in Paris in the 1920s
Literature
S. Buisson & D. Buisson, La vie et l'oeuvre de Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita, Paris 1987, no. 18.46 (illustrated and incorrectly measured p. 354).