TFAM to unveil The Illustrated Books of Leonard Foujita exhibition

On April 3, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum will be launching an exhibition featuring works by Japanese painter and printmaker Leonard Foujita (1886-1968) from TFAM’s private collection. Foujita, who used Japanese ink techniques in Western-style paintings, moved to Paris in 1913 and befriended such artistic giants as Amedeo Modgliani, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, rising to fame as a painter of striking women and cats. Among Foujita’s works that will be exhibited are illustrations and cover art for French books and magazines. The exhibition also displays some 8 works by his School of Paris contemporaries, including oil paintings and lithographs by Modigliani, Chagall and Laurencin.

A series of side events will also be held, from the “Gallery Talk” conducted by our curators every Saturday afternoon.