`GIRL WITH CANARY` AN IMPORTANT WOODBLOCK PRINT BY TSUGUHARU (LEONARD) FOUJITA Framed and signed lower right. Frame: 59cm x 49.5cm Image: 38cm x 25.5cm OTHER NOTES: Leonard Foujita is considered one of the most important Japanese artists of the 20th century. After studying Western style painting in Japan, he travelled to Paris in his mid-twenties and following WWII, moved to France permanently, becoming a French citizen. His portraits of beautiful women combine elements of Japanese and Western painting, with delicate line work characteristic of traditional Japanese ink paintings.