Madeleine sleeping

Details

Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)
Madeleine sleeping
signed and dated 'Foujita 1931' (center right)
ink and watercolour on paper
31.5 x 41.5 cm.
Executed in 1931

Literature

Sylvie Buisson, Foujita: Inédits, Vol. III, Paris 2007, no. C.31.119D, p. 179 (illustrated).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

The woman depicted is Madeleine Lequeux, a danser at the Casino de Paris, who posed for Foujita for the first time in 1930. From thereupon the artist and his model started a relationship and stayed together until Madeleine passed away in 1936.

To be sold with a photo certificate by Sylvie Buisson.

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