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Rare original drawing by Foujita * representing a cat's head, made on the 1st page of the Catalog of the 28th Bal des Petits Lits Blancs ** on 5 May 1959, in parallel with the Paris Fair, at the Palais des Nations.
This book is in very good condition. The cover is by Bernard Buffet. There are numerous advertisements of luxury goods inside as well as facsimiles of letters and various illustrations in black and in colors (Leonor Fini, Jean-Denis Maillart, Peynet ...). Also the program booklet of the Ball with the list of participants, the access map and 2 raffle tickets.
An invoice certifying the design will be issued to the buyer.
Note: tiny yellowing of time on the pages.
also known as Léonard Foujita, is a full-fledged Japanese artist (painter, drawer, engraver, illustrator, ceramist, photographer, filmmaker, fashion designer ...). He rests in Reims in the chapel Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix which he imagined and painted at the end of his life.
Pupil of the Imperial School of Fine Arts in Tokyo. Rewarded very young at Japanese exhibitions. After a short visit to London, he settled in Paris in 1913, where he discovered living French art. The decorative dominates in his works. Installed at Montmartre, he quickly became one of the picturesque figures. In 1924 he was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tokyo, although he occupied a prominent place at the Salon d'Automne at the Salon des Tuileries. The artist has traveled extensively. Drawing a rare suppleness, a painter, a friend of grace, he used methods quite similar to those of the craftsmen of his country, covering his canvases, using stamps as well as brushes. Foujita was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1925. (extrait Bénézit)
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Léon Bailby (1867-1954), a French press patron, created in 1918 a charity event for children's works, the "Bal des Petits Lits Blancs", which until 1935 took place at the Opéra Garnier before traveling in different places.
