Word: tsuguharu
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...rest from challenging artistic fundamentals, but they still had no time for bourgeois morality. A room devoted to nudes painted between the wars is frankly erotic, including the Italian Amedeo Modigliani's lush Reclining Nude of 1919. Less familiar are the delicate Youki, Snow Goddess (1924), by the Japanese Tsuguharu Foujita, who lies against frozen whiteness protected by an alert and sharp-featured dog, and Marcel Gromaire's Seated Nude (1929), sporting fashionable bobbed hair and a wide-collared coat slung around her shoulders...
...year's slickest shows opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. The paintings, by 62-year-old Tsuguharu Foujita, were as clear and dry as the Martinis served at the opening, though not so powerful...
Quivering Detail. Most of the action took place at the "Tokyo Correspondents' Club" at No. 1 Shimbun Alley, the official billet for foreign correspondents. Hoberecht got most of its residents, and even its houseboys, between his covers. Added attraction: some sensuous illustrations by Artist Tsuguharu Fujita, billed as the first kissing scenes ever to adorn a Japanese novel. Since Japanese are unaccustomed to Western-style embraces, Hoberecht went into what he calls "great, quivering detail." (To one hot-blooded chapter the publishers added a solemn subtitle: The Ethics of Kissing) Last week, as his royalties piled up from Tokyo...
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