Adam and Eve

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Tsugouharu Foujita

Title

Adam and Eve

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, opaque watercolor, pen and black ink, and gold leaf, with glue and coarse pigments on cream Japanese paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "T. Foujita" (also in Japanese); verso, lower right, in pen and black ink: "Foujita"; (in Japanese characters) "Round Star" (his name),'GA" (artist), "1919"

Dimensions

32.3 × 58.5 cm (12 3/4 × 23 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Reference Number

1939.503

Copyright

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

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