Fujita, Tsugouharu

(11/27/1886 Edogama-1/29/1968 Zurich) (Japan / France); aka Foujita, Tsugouharu / Fujita, Leonard

   Oil painter, watercolorist, fresco painter, illustrator, lithographer, and etcher. Studied at Tokyo School of Fine Arts, but emigrated to Paris in 1913. Among his book illustrations was Louys' Pybrac erotic poetry.

   Reproductions: Couple nu enlace; 1932; Lucie-Smith 1997: p. 9 . Dompteuse et le lion; 1930; oil; Smith, 1980: p. 145 [C]. [Erotic drawings]; Neret, 2000: pp. 390-415 . Illustration for The nun [attributed to]; 1940s; Neret, 1994: pp. 722-727 [B]. Illustration to Le Verger des amours; Kearney, 1982: p. 166 [B]. [Lesbian nudes]; Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 93 [B]. [Nude couple]; lithograph; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 126 [B]. [Woman masturbating]; lithograph; Kronhausen, 1968: p. 127 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 5: pp. 1165-1167; DoA vol. 11: p. 337; Vollmer II 1955: p. 138.