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Sold with a photo-certificate from the Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, no. 97-073 and dated Tokyo 25 February 1997
Fleurs et papillon
Details
Tsuguji Foujita (1886-1968)
Fleurs et papillon
signed 'T Foujita' and again in Japanese (lower left); signed 'T Foujita' (on the reverse)
oil, gold leaf and pen and ink on canvas
19 x 13in. (48 x 33cm.)
Executed in 1919
Fleurs et papillon
signed 'T Foujita' and again in Japanese (lower left); signed 'T Foujita' (on the reverse)
oil, gold leaf and pen and ink on canvas
19 x 13in. (48 x 33cm.)
Executed in 1919
Provenance
Alice Schaeffer, Berlin and Hampstead, by whom purchased in the 1920s in Paris
Given by the above to the present owner in the early 1950s
Given by the above to the present owner in the early 1950s