Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita, (1886-1968), Self-Portrait, Pencil Sketch on Paper

Image Size: 13 1/2 by 10 in. (33.8 by 24.5 cm.)

Signed (lower right),Signed and stamped by TOGO SEIJI(1897-1978) a Japanese painter and artist - as a certification

Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japanese, 1886-1968) was born in Tokyo. He graduated from the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo in 1910, and in 1913 he divorced and moved to Paris. He made his debut in a solo show in 1917, the same year that he married the model Fernande Barrey, with whom he was married for a short period. He participated in the Autumn Salon of 1922, where he had great success.In 1924 he was appointed a member of the Tokyo Academy of Arts, although he will not return to his country until five years later, with a highly successful exhibition. In 1932 he visited Cuba, 2 invited by Alejo Carpentier, a country where he made 33 drawings and paintings that he exhibited at the Lyceum in Havana. After his visit, he moved to Japan, where he painted various murals on commission.He returned to Paris in 1939-40, but he lived most of the Second World War in his country. He painted various works on the conflict, such as The Last Day of Singapore (1942, Tokyo Museum of Modern Art).After a period in the United States, in 1950 he settled again in Paris and acquired French nationality. In 1959 he converted to Catholicism and was baptized with the name of Leonard.In his later years he decorated the Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix de Reims chapel, or Foujita chapel (begun in 1965, completed in 1966).Along with his pictorial activity, he developed quite extensive work as an illustrator; thus, in 1928 an edition of Les aventures du roi Pausole, by Pierre Louys, with woodcuts by this artist was published.

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