TAB Event - "40 Years After Leonard Fujita's Passing" Exhibition

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At Utsunomiya Museum of Art
Media: Painting, Drawing, Other, Art Talk

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Born in Tokyo in 1886, Tsuguharu Fujita studied at the Tokyo Art School (now Tokyo University of the Arts) and in 1913 moved to Paris at the age of 27. In Paris, where originality was crucial to being an artist, Fujita achieved an original style of oil painting by incorporating into it elements of traditional nihon-ga painting. He succeeded in giving expression to the softness of human skin on his canvas. Through his depictions of nudes and cats painted with black lines on top of a milky-white background, Fujita won much attention from French audiences.
After World War II, Fujita went back to Paris again and became a naturalized citizen of France, following which he converted to Catholicism and changed his name to Leonard Fujita.
This exhibition looks at the course of his career in France, centering on 4 large-scale paintings of a group of nude figures, discovered in suburban Paris in 1992. Works include those from the late 1910s, at a time when Fujita was still searching for his own style; to the following decade, when he perfected his signature "milky-white" surfaces. On view alongside these 4 nude paintings are numerous sketches that he executed as studies for these works. On display for the first time are religious paintings, fresco work for the interior of the Chapelle Fujita in France, sketches for stained glass commissions, and more.

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