Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.

Exhibition History

1968

Hommage a Leonard Foujita, Le Musée central de Tokyo, 7 September 1968 - 20 October 1968, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 7 Sep. 1968-24 Oct. 1968, cat. no. 23

1980

近代洋画の人間像, Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, 18 October 1980 - 30 November 1980, cat. no. 12, repr. color.

2001

French Masterpiece Drawings from The National Museum of Western Art Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 March 2001 - 24 June 2001

2018

Foujita: A Retrospective Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of His Death, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 31 July 2018 - 8 October 2018, cat. no. 26

2019

The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 152, col. repr.

2024

Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2024 - 12 May 2024

2025

Foujita: Painting and Photography, Tokyo Station Gallery, 5 July 2025 - 31 August 2025, Nagoya City Art Museum, 27 September 2025-7 December 2025; The Museum of ModernArt, Ibaraki, 10 February 2026-12 April 2026; Sapporo Art Museum, 29 April 2026-28 June 2026, cat. no. F10

Bibliography

1955

La Collection Matsukata. Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 , no. 59. (in Japanese)

1961

Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-152.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 670.

2018

Foujita: A Retrospective: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his Death. [Tokyo], Asahi Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, c2018, cat. no. 26, col. repr.

2019

The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1558, col. repr.

2019

The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 259-260, 375, cat. no. 152, col. repr.

2024

Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi; Mochizuki, Kaoru, eds. [Tokyo], Culture Convenience Club; Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 2024, pp. 75, 302, col. repr.

2025

Foujita: Painting and Photography (exh. cat). Yokoyama, Yukiko, ed. Tokyo, Curators, [2025], pp. 54, 248, cat. no. F10, col. repr.

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