Code: 6056
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A very beautiful signed and dated 1955 oil on canvas depicting a French harbour, by Foussa Itaya.
Excellent quality and condition work by this important Japanese/French painter who worked and exhibited in Paris.
Signed and dated lower right. Presented in a fine painted carved wood Montparnasse frame.
Artist: Foussa Itaya (Japanese/French, 1919-1972)
Title: The Harbour
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 26 x 31 inches (66 x 78 cm) including the frame
Foussa Itaya was born in 1919 in Foukouoka, Japan and finished his studies at the school of Beaux Arts in Japan.
He has exhibited at the Salon Nikakai and in 1953 went to Paris to exihibit his works. In 1955 he exhibited at the Drouant-David Gallery - our painting is likely to have been exhibited at that time.
Many of his works are on exhibit at the Israel Museum, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Japanese Embassy in Paris, and also in Switzerland. In 2023 a major retrospective exhibition was held at the Maas Gallery, London.
