Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA (1886-1968) Vase of flowers, 1917 Watercolor, ink and tempera. Signed and dated lower right. Signed and located in Japanese. 36 x 24,5 cm Provenance : - Anonymous sale, Me Loudmer, Paris, November 19, 1989, no. 110, reproduced in the catalog. - Sale Ader, Paris, March 26, 2015, n° 230, reproduced in the catalog. Bibliography: Sylvie Buisson, Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita. Volume 2, Courbevoie, ACR Éditions, 2001, n° 17.96, reproduced on p. 157. Foujita arrived in Paris in 1913 and very quickly met Picasso. It was in the studio of the inventor of cubism that he discovered the work of the Douanier Rousseau. Foujita was fascinated. The influence of the naive painter can be felt in his works as in our vase of flowers, made in 1917. That same year, the Chéron gallery, rue de la Boétie organized his first personal exhibition of 110 watercolors, in which our work would probably have appeared.