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Details
- Other Title
- Self-portrait with cat
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
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Taishō period 1912 - 1926
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Japan
Shōwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan - Date
- circa 1920s
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Edition
- 78/150
- Dimensions
- 32.5 x 24.4 cm image
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., pencil "Foujita". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1957
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Asian Lantern galleries
- Accession number
- 9350
- Copyright
- © Estate of Fujita Tsuguharu
- Artist information
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Fujita Tsuguharu
Works in the collection
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About
Fujita most likely made this print in Paris, where in the 1920s he enjoyed unprecedented success as a Japanese painter. He established a much-acclaimed style of painting on a white surface with black ink outlines inspired by traditional Japanese painting, as seen in this etching. While many Japanese artists spent time in Paris, Fujita was the painter most fully integrated into the Parisian art world, living there from 1913 to 1929, and then intermittently until his death. In Paris he mixed with artists such as Modigliani and Picasso, and served as a judge for the salons. His fondness of cats was well known, and they feature in many of his works.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.276.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Modern Boy Modern Girl - modernity in Japanese art 1910-1935, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Jul 1998–30 Aug 1998
Correspondence, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10 Sep 2022–2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Chiaki Ajioka, Modern Boy Modern Girl: modernity in Japanese art 1910-1935, 'Lure of the City', pg. 29-54, Sydney, 1998, 32 (colour illus.), 164. cat.no. 5ii
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'A New Dichotomy', Sydney, 2003, 276 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Rudy Komon, Jun 1957, Australia, purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 1957.