01 Painting, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita's Sahara, les enfants du desert/ children of the desert, with footnotes

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968)

Sahara, les enfants du desert, c. 1952

Oil on canvas

13 x 16 1/4 in (33 x 41.2 cm)

Private collection

Estimated for US$350,000 - US$550,000 in Dec 2022

Four children in the foreground are bedecked in white, black, and red indigenous garb, joined by a jolly chimpanzee in the center of their grouping. Foujita has modeled the children's faces with the utmost delicacy, in keeping with his refined technique. 

Sahara, les enfants du desert by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita was painted at a pivotal time in the artist's life, when he was exploring new continents, renewing earlier painting themes and techniques, and asserting his singular, celebrated vision. More on this painting

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (November 27, 1886 – January 29, 1968) was a Japanese–French painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, who applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings. At the height of his fame in Paris, during the 1920s, he was known for his portraits of nudes using an opalescent white ink with fine black outlines and his pictures of cats. He returned to Japan in 1933, and served as a war artist for the Imperial Japan during World War II. After the war, Foujita returned to France, where he became a French citizen and converted to Christianity. He was buried in The Chapel of our Lady of Peace, which he had helped build and is painted with his frescoes. Since his death, Foujita's work has become increasingly appreciated in Japan. More on Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita

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