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Nuns in Convent Yard

A work made of watercolor and brush and black ink, with pen and black ink, over traces of graphite on cream japanese paper, laid down on brown wood-pulp board.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • A work made of watercolor and brush and black ink, with pen and black ink, over traces of graphite on cream japanese paper, laid down on brown wood-pulp board.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Tsugouharu Foujita
French, born Japan, 1886-1968

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Tsugouharu Foujita

Title

Nuns in Convent Yard

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1906–1939

Medium

Watercolor and brush and black ink, with pen and black ink, over traces of graphite on cream Japanese paper, laid down on brown wood-pulp board

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "T. Foujita"; (in Kanji) "Tsuguharu"

Dimensions

Primary support: 32.5 × 42.5 cm (12 13/16 × 16 3/4 in.); Secondary support: 32.8 × 43.1 cm (12 15/16 × 17 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Arthur T. Aldis in memory of Arthur T. Aldis

Reference Number

1939.502

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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