Daily bread 04/21/2018

• Back in favour: Japanese master who outshone Picasso in 1920s Paris | Art and design | The Guardian

  • Back in favour: Japanese master who outshone Picasso in 1920s Paris
  • was the toast of the art world
  • the public gaze
  • Tsuguharu Foujita
  • bring him back from obscurity
  • one of the most successful artists of the 1920s
  • paid a fortune for
  • shining art star
  • more successful than Picasso and more acclaimed than Matisse
  • Brought up in a family open to western culture
  • wouldn’t be returning home any time soon
  • in conciliation with
  • in opposition to
  • hybridisation
  • no other Japanese artist had dared take before
  • sold out instantly
  • Extravagance ruled
  • Hugely successful
  • building a brand
  • dandy
  • reached an impasse
  • obtained French nationality
  • They settled in Montparnasse and led a quiet life.
  • converted to Catholicism

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