LÉONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA, (1886-1968)

Femme endormie (Youki)

Femme endormie (Youki)
signed and dated 'Foujita 1928' and further signed in Japanese (lower left)
pen, India ink and estompe on paper
24.2 x 31cm (9 1/2 x 12 3/16in).
Executed in 1928

Provenance
Private collection, Paris.
Private collection, Paris (a gift from the above in the 1930s).
Thence by descent to the present owners.

Exhibited
Paris, Musée de Montmartre, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita et l'Ecole de Paris, 10 April - 23 June 1991, no. 27 (later travelled to Tokyo).
Dinard, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Foujita, le maître japonais de Montparnasse, 27 June - 25 September 2004, no. 77.
Paris, Musée Maillol, Foujita, peindre dans les années folles, 7 March - 15 July 2018, no. 82.

Literature
S. Buisson, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Vol. II, Paris, 2001, no. 28.138 (illustrated p. 264).