(Tokyo 1886–1968 Zurich)
Les deux amies (two girlfriends), 1928, signed Tsuguharu in japanese and Foujita, graphite, stump on paper laid down on cardboard, 91 x 70 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archives Artistiques of Sylvie Buisson, Paris and will be included in the forthcoming vol. IV of the Catalogue Raisonné. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity of Sylvie Buisson.

Provenance:
Ader, 29 March 2019, lot 194
acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited:
Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, The Muses of Montparnasse, 15 July – 3 October 2021, exh. cat. n. 178, page 181, ill.

Note:
Important preparatory drawing for one of the 4 monumental frescoes “Combat I” dating from 1927. Foujita worked for almost a whole year on this project. The 4 frescoes were intended for the Japanese Pavilion of the City of Paris. The project was never realized. Following the Foujita estate, the Département de l’Éssonne acquired the drawing to preserve this heritage.

See:
Fresco (Combat I), oil on canvas, 300 x 300 cm, in: Foujita, Le maitre du trait, Textes by Anne Le Diberder, Paris, 2008, page 96 ill. and
Paris, Musée Maillol, Foujita, peindre dans les années folles, 2018, Fonds Mercator, cat. exh. page 162, ill.