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    • Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (188
    Lot 271 | PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION Read more

    Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)

    Paysage au cerf-volant

    Price realised

    GBP 40,000

    Estimate

    GBP 18,000 - GBP 25,000

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    Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)
    Paysage au cerf-volant
    signed 'Foujita' (lower left); signed and inscribed 'Banlieue Foujita' (on the reverse)
    oil on canvas
    13 x 9 1/2 in. (33 x 24.2 cm.)
    Painted circa 1957

    Provenance

    Anonymous sale, Maître Kohn, Geneva, 7 September 1983, lot 203.
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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    Literature

    S. Buisson & D. Buisson, La vie et l'oeuvre de Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita, Paris, 1987, no. 57.14, p. 510 (illustrated).


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    PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

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