Provenance
Private Collection, France
Then by descent to the present owner
Catalogue Essay
Les deux amies (The two friends) is the preparatory drawing for a painting currently in a private collection. The softly-executed precise drawing represents two female nudes seated in opposite directions, joining their gaze towards the right while gently resting their arms onto each other’s neck. Foujita offers a beautiful allegory of friendship which exudes tenderness and harmony. The subject matter is recurring in his work from the 1920s, with an emblematic yin-yang duality emphasized by the contrasting hairs of the two models. Les deux amies seems to have collected Foujita’s particular appreciation as he then decides to reproduce the composition into an etching with aquatint (edition of 100) as part of the famous 6-compositions series ‘Les Femmes’ (Women) representing the same two models in different poses

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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita

Les deux amies

signed 'Tsuguharu [in Kanji] Foujita' lower left
lead pencil and stump on paper
94.7 x 68 cm (37 1/4 x 26 3/4 in.)
Executed circa 1929.

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Foujita/Sanyu: Muses and Models

Hong Kong Selling Exhibition 18-31 May 2019

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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Nude with Raised Arms
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Seated Woman
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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Contemplating Woman
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Nu allongé, Madeleine
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Portrait de Madame Hélène Berthelot
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Femme à la fleur (Woman smelling flowers)
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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Madeleine
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Naiade
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Bathers
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Seated Nude
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Woman’s Profile
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Profil de jeune femme blonde au chignon (Portrait of a blond young girl with a bun)
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Le mépris
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Petite fille avec deux chats
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Reclining Nude
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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Madeleine Sleeping
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Seated woman drawing
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Seated woman
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Les deux amies
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Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita
Untitled
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Seated woman with extended leg
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Femme nu assise (Reclining nude)
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Hong Kong Selling Exhibition 18-31 May 2019

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Provenance

Catalogue Essay

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Les deux amies

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