"Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita" This "Japanese Watercolor" over pencil on paper measures 24 and three eighths inches wide by 21 and one eighth inches tall outside the frame and the image measures 15 inches wide by 11 and three quarter inches tall. circa 1937. aka Fujita Tsuguji. 1886 to 1968. Graduated Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1910. By 1910 he had received several medals and prizes; the Japanese Emperor even purchased one of his paintings. On a trip to Korea in 1911, he was asked to paint the king. Foujita seemed destined for a career in the Orient until he traveled to London in 1912 and then, in 1913, went to live in Paris. He discovered European contemporary art, much as the French, in the nineteenth-century, had discovered Japanese prints. Foujita had his first exhibition in Paris in 1917 and by 1924 he was one of the most important exhibitors at the Salon d' Automne. He returned to Paris at the outbreak of World War II and remained there until 1941 after which he spent nine years in Tokyo" (This information was obtained at http://www.3d-dali.com/Artist-Biographie /Tsuguharu_Foujita.html)

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