Yasushi Tanaka (1886-1941) Woman Reading Jardin Du Luxembourg Paris Japan

Yasushi TANAKA (1886-1941)

Woman reading in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.
Haussmannian buildings can be seen on the left side of the painting.

Oil on canvas signed lower right.

The frame measures 52 x 93 cm.
The frame measures 53.5 x 94.5 cm.

Biography :

Yasushi Tanaka, born May 13, 1886 in Saitama, Japan and died April 24, 1941, was a Japanese painter of portraits, nudes, architectures, landscapes and flowers. Yasushi Tanaka settled in Paris in 1920 and exhibited, from then on, at the National Society of Fine Arts as well as at the Salon d'Automne, the Independents and the Tuileries in Paris. He moved to rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris from 1923 until his death. His compositions always bear the trace of the first artistic emotion he felt when he went to the United States in 1904, in front of the vast American landscapes, in such great contrast with the setting of his childhood. If he preferred the techniques of the French School to traditional Japanese practices, he nevertheless escaped any school influence and began to study nature directly, in very pure colored harmonies.