08-05-2025
How Asian artists made their mark on Paris
MAX CROSBIE-JONES
SINGAPORE -- Getting noticed in crowded 1920s Paris was not easy, but, judging by a landmark exhibition, Tsuguharu Foujita managed it.
In black-and-white photographs, the Japanese painter, born in Tokyo in 1886, appears every inch the natty man about town, while a self-portrait hung near the entrance does an even better job of encapsulating why he became a minor celebrity in the clubs and cafes of the bohemian Montparnasse neighborhood during the ann e es folles (crazy years) after World War I.
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