TSUGUHARA FUJITA (1886-1968)

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Tsuguhara Fujita (1886-1968)
Half-length portrait of a young woman, possibly the fashionable poetess Anna, Contesse de Noailles, as Fujita was an enthusiastic member of her court (her name is pencilled on the back of the print), signed Foujita in kanji and Roman script
Oban: 42 x 29.2cm.

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Lot Essay

For another impression of this rare design, belonging to the Harvard University Art Museums, see Helen Merritt, Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints (Honolulu, 1996), p. 103: this impression bears the pencilled inscription 'My wife'.

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