FOUJITA – Original signed drawing – Woman with amphora.

Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA (1886.1968)

Original signed drawing – Woman with amphora.

Black ink and white chalk on tracing paper.

Signed in the lower margin. 1950-51.

Size: 7.50 x 17.50 cm

Magnificent preparatory study for La Rivière enchantée , a work illustrated by Foujita.

The Enchanted River, one of the most coveted artists' books among bibliophiles, was published by B. Klein in 1951. Foujita, at the height of his artistic mastery, illustrated a text by René Héron de Villefosse.

Provenance: Cornette de Saint Cyr sale, Kimiyo Foujita Estate, 2013.

Bibliography: Sylvie Buisson, “Tsuguharu-Léonard Foujita” (Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IIACR Éditions, Paris 2001. Work listed under number 51176.)