Lot #291: LEONARD TSUGUHARU FOUJITA [imputée] - Le chat Olivier - Pencil drawing on paper

 

Artist: Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita [imputée] (Japanese/French, 1886 - 1968).
Title: "Le chat Olivier".
Medium: Pencil drawing on paper.
Date: Composed c1929.
Dimensions: Overall size: 9 1/2 x 13 1/16 in. (241 x 332 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $3,000
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $4,000/5,000
Lot Note(s): Signed upper right. Drawn on cream wove paper. Very good condition; affixed to thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet.
Comment(s): Please see the cat “Oliver” in Foujita’s “A Book of Cats, Being Twenty Drawings by Foujita,” New York: Covidi Friede, 1930. Foujita, born in Tokyo, Japan, applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings. His portraits of cats are especially well known. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [30424-2-3000-NA]