Portrait of Tsuguharu Foujita
Artist: Berenice Abbott (American, 1898 -1991)
Date: 1926
Dimensions:
9 1/4 x 6 7/8 in. (23.2 x 17.5 cm)
Medium: Vintage gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1985.38
Label Text:Ohio-native Berenice Abbott went became a celebrated and critical figure bridging the photographic circles of Paris and New York. She is known for her images of New York’s urban architecture and design as well as intuitive portraits in which she saw the process as an “exchange between people”: the sitter (subject) and photographer. Abbott took this portrait of artist Tsuguharu Foujita (1886–1968; also known as Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita) at the height of his career in France. He was a known extrovert, throwing lavish parties. Here Abbott provides another, intimate view into the artist’s inner life as she captures him in a contemplative state looking away from the viewer to something beyond the frame.
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