$10,000
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Modern & Contemporary Works of Art
Auction: November 3, 2013 2:00:00 PM EDT
Signed in ink, dated 1948 lower right, watercolor, gouache and ink on paper
sheet: 20 3/4 x 12 15/16 in. (52.7 x 32.9cm)
support sheet: 23 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (60.3 x 37.5cm)
Provenance: Private Collection, Virginia.
Note:
This painting has been authenticated by Sylvie Buisson and has been assigned catalogue number D48.018.A.
The present owner sat for this portrait in 1948 when she was eight years old and living outside of Tokyo where her father, a colonel in the army, was stationed. She recalls that Foujita, by then an internationally celebrated artist, executed portraits of several of the occupationists' children.