Tag: Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita

Moise Kisling (Poland/France, 1891-1953) Kiki de Montparnasse signed 'Kisling' (lower left) oil on canvas 55 x 38.1 cm. (21 5/8 x 15 in.) Painted in 1924 Kees van Dongen (Netherlands/France, 1877-1968) Portrait of a woman with a cigarette (Kiki de Montparnasse) Watercolour on paper 49.5 x 35.4 cm. Painted circa 1922-1924 Gustaw Gwozdecki (Poland, 1880-1935) ...

Portrait of Japanese Painter Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japan-France, 1886-1968) photographed by Pierre Vauthey. Portrait de Jeune Fille à Hanoi (Portrait of a Young Girl in Hanoi) is one of Foujita's masterpieces illustrating the beauty of a Vietnamese lady. After having studied Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita travelled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern ...

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japan-France, 1886-1968) Portrait de Jeune Fille à Hanoi (Portrait of a Young Girl in Hanoi) signed in Japanese; signed, inscribed and dated 'Foujita Hanoi 1941' (lower left) ink, watercolour and charcoal on paper 27 x 24 cm. (10 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.) Painted in 1941 Price Realised HKD 350,000 at Christie's ...

Where Kiki de Montparnasse spent her last years before passing in 1953. Alice Ernestine Prin (1901–1953), so-called Kiki de Montparnasse, the Queen of Montparnasse, a French model, chanteuse, actress, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished in and helped define the liberated culture of Paris in the so-called Années folles ("crazy years" in ...