Tsuguharo Foujita (1886-1968)

Foujita was born in Tokyo. He attended the Imperial School of Fine Arts in that city and was a success immediately after he began painting. Despite his following, Foujita moved to Paris in 1913 because he felt he could learn more in that fertile artistic community. It was there that he pioneered the technique of using stamped impressions of color along with brush strokes on his canvases. He traveled extensively and took inspiration from each trip, blending elements in a seductive style that meshed Japanese tradition with Occidental modernism. Foujita was a success in France and lived there for most of his life, returning to Japan only for three years during World War II. He made lithographs, soft-ground etchings, and aquatints, which were usually portraits.

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