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Leonard Foujita: Paris's Pet Oriental

November 21, 2014 Add Comment Edit
Self Portrait, 1936 It wasn’t for nothing that the Ecole de Paris was called a school. In the early decades of the 20th century artis...
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Takanori Oguiss: The Japanese Utrillo

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When I first saw the oil paintings of Paris by the Japanese artist, Takanori Oguiss (1901-1986), I was strangely reminded of the neutron...
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