Live Auction 3048Modern Art
Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)
Lot 9

Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)

Madeleine sleeping

Closed17 June 2014

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EUR 47,100

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Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)
Madeleine sleeping
signed and dated 'Foujita 1931' (center right)
ink and watercolour on paper
31.5 x 41.5 cm.
Executed in 1931

Specialist note

The woman depicted is Madeleine Lequeux, a danser at the Casino de Paris, who posed for Foujita for the first time in 1930. From thereupon the artist and his model started a relationship and stayed together until Madeleine passed away in 1936.

To be sold with a photo certificate by Sylvie Buisson.