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Tsuguharu Foujita　Combat avec l'image　1941　Lithograph　8.2×9.0cm

This is a lithograph by Tsuguharu Foujita created to accompany a short, meditative text written by the French diplomat, playwright, and novelist Jean Giraudoux while staying in a hotel room after the declaration of war and the capitulation of the French government.

In the opening paragraphs, Giraudoux recounts receiving a sketch by Foujita as a gift, and how the drawing gradually changed the atmosphere of his place of work.

"It is a sleeping woman, like the sleep of an object…"

As the pages turn, the figure of the woman unfolds and fragments, gradually emerging through the sensual details of her body.