Large Surrealist French Japanese European Cityscape Oil painting Foussa Itaya

Dimensions: H: 23.5, W: 28.5 IN

Foussa Itaya (Japan, France, 1919-1972) Oil on canvas.

View of rooftops, European town cityscape Hand signed lower left Dimensions: H 23.5" x W 28.5"

Born in Fukuoka, Foussa Itaya studied art at the School of Beaux Arts in his native Japan. He exhibited at the Salon Nikakai before travelling to Paris to continue his work. Itaya's paintings have been exhibited at the Drouant-David Gallery, Carnegie Hall, and the Japanese embassy in France. Itaya was one of a small group pf Japanese expat artists living and working in Paris in the 1950's.

Part of the Post War Ecole de Paris, School of Paris painters. A group that included Henri Epstein, Charles Kvapil, Jean Louis Marcel Cosson, Francois Gall, Mane Katz, Pierre Bosco, Theo Tobiasse, Lucien Joseph Fontanarosa, Roger Desserprit, Jacques Chapiro, Jules Pascin, Andre Derain, Jacques Bouyssou, Henri D'Anty, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Dyf. His work was influenced by Foujita.

He loved painting cats, sultry semi nude languid women, landscape and cityscape architecture paintings. He was also influenced by Seiji Togo a Japanese-French artist

His works are on exhibit at Israeli Museum, Carnegie Hall and the Japanese Embassy in Paris and in Switzerland.

His work bears the influence of Surrealism and Magic Realist, fantasy painting with a folk art, naive quality to them reminiscent of Michel Delacroix. He showed at Wally Findlay galleries in Chicago, New York and Palm Beach.