Foujita. Painting in the Roaring Twenties. Exhibition catalog.
Mercator Fund| N° d'inventaire | 21139 |
| Format | 22.5 x 29 |
| Détails | 192 p., 140 illustrations, hardcover. In blister pack. |
| Publication | Brussels, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789462302167 |
Catalogue of the Foujita exhibition. Painting in the Roaring Twenties, presented at the Musée Maillol, Paris (March 7 - July 15, 2018).
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One of the great figures of Montparnasse during the Roaring Twenties, he is one of the great names of modern art, alongside Modigliani and Soutine, his two closest friends, Chagall, Zadkine and all those who made this extraordinarily fertile period in the history of art a sort of neo-Renaissance.
The young man arrived in Paris in 1913. Well-versed in Western painting techniques taught at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, he very quickly developed a remarkable synthesis between the traditions of his native country and the emerging modern European art.
Quickly noticed by major gallery owners and dealers, as well as by his peers, from Renoir to Picasso, the man who described himself as "the most Japanese of Parisians and the most Parisian of Japanese" fascinated with his eccentric and ambiguous dandy look. But behind the inveterate reveler, an emblematic figure of Paris during the Roaring Twenties, hides a hard worker who would leave behind a considerable body of work.
The exhibition focuses on the painter's first stay in Paris. It is part of a series of events this year devoted to Foujita's life and work in France and Japan.
Catalogue of the Foujita exhibition. Painting in the Roaring Twenties, presented at the Musée Maillol, Paris (March 7 - July 15, 2018).
exhausted
One of the great figures of Montparnasse during the Roaring Twenties, he is one of the great names of modern art, alongside Modigliani and Soutine, his two closest friends, Chagall, Zadkine and all those who made this extraordinarily fertile period in the history of art a sort of neo-Renaissance.
The young man arrived in Paris in 1913. Well-versed in Western painting techniques taught at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, he very quickly developed a remarkable synthesis between the traditions of his native country and the emerging modern European art.
Quickly noticed by major gallery owners and dealers, as well as by his peers, from Renoir to Picasso, the man who described himself as "the most Japanese of Parisians and the most Parisian of Japanese" fascinated with his eccentric and ambiguous dandy look. But behind the inveterate reveler, an emblematic figure of Paris during the Roaring Twenties, hides a hard worker who would leave behind a considerable body of work.
The exhibition focuses on the painter's first stay in Paris. It is part of a series of events this year devoted to Foujita's life and work in France and Japan.