Tsuguharu Foujita (1886 - 1930)
Portrait of a Young Woman Sold
Pencil, with stumping, on light brown paper. Signed Foujita and in Japanese at the lower left centre.280 x 262 mm. (11 x 10 3/8 in.)
ENQUIREDatable on stylistic grounds to the second half of the 1920’s, the present sheet is a preparatory study for a painting by Fujita, today in a private collection in San Francisco. The drawing also served to prepare a lithograph, of similar dimensions and in the same direction as the present sheet.
Provenance:
Private collection, Spain.