TAKIYAMA Gensaburo XX° Japon; Foujita; Ecole de Paris;

"TAKIYAMA Gensaburo XX ° Japan; Foujita; School of Paris;" TAKIYAMA Gensaburo XX ° Japan; Foujita; School of Paris; "Cagnes sur mer, 1929". Oil on canvas, signed in French and Japanese lower right, dated 1929 and located "Cagnes sur mer". 2 scratches on the top left. TAKIYAMA Gensaburo is part of the colony of Japanese painters from the Paris school. In 2010, the exhibition "Foujita and her friends from Montparnasse" at the chateau of Chamerolle (Loiret), retraces the extraordinary life of Montparnasse and its painters, including the Japanese painter Gensaburo Takiyama. There are 36 artists exhibited there (Bando, Cocteau, Colin, Derain, Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Max Jacob, Kiki de Montparnasse, Kisling, Koyanagui, Laurencin, Léger, Lhote, Marevna, Modigliani, Orloff, Ortiz de Zarate, Pascin, Picasso, Salmon, Soutine, Touchagues, Utrillo, Van Dongen, Vassilieff, Vlaminck, Zadkine and TAKIYAMA). The French Riviera and particularly the village of Cagnes sur mer is the refuge of many painters from Montparnasse. Like Renoir and Soutine and many others, Takiyama comes here to seek out Mediterranean light. In 1928 the Japanese painters in Paris numbered about fifty. Many keep their pictorial tradition according to the classic Ukiyo-E. We see in our view of Cagnes sur mer, an adherence to the canons of Western painting ...