Editing Tsuguharu Foujita (section)

=== Time in America and final years in France: 1949-1968 ===
Foujita was able to get a visa to the United States with the help of [[Henry Sugimoto]] and took up a teaching position at the [[Brooklyn Museum Art School]] in March 1949.{{sfn|Birnbaum|2006|pp=[https://archive.org/details/gloryinlinelifeo00birn/page/279 279], [https://archive.org/details/gloryinlinelifeo00birn/page/283/ 283]}} Foujita put on another show, but was once more labelled a fascist by artists, including [[Ben Shahn]], who organized a demonstration against him. His paintings of the time reflect a nostalgia for Paris. Unhappy and unwelcome in New York, Foujita sought to return to Paris and once his visa was granted,{{sfn|Lamia|2018|p=149}} Foujita and Kimiyo moved back to France in January 1950.{{sfn|Birnbaum|2006|p=[https://archive.org/details/gloryinlinelifeo00birn/page/287 287–288]}}  Foujita declared that he would never leave again.{{sfn|Lamia|2018|p=149}}

The couple moved to Montparnasse where Foujita began painting street scenes that he called "Paris Landscapes".{{sfn|Selz|1981|p=83}} He briefly became involved with costume design, creating the "Japanese" outfits for the May 1951 performance of [[Madame Butterfly]] at La Scala,{{sfn|Hayashi-Hibino|2003|p=[https://www.persee.fr/docAsPDF/ebisu_1340-3656_2003_num_31_1_1365.pdf 176–177]|ps=: "Une exposition, organisée dans le nouvel immeuble de Prada Tôkyô,{{nbsp}}... présentait les costumes dessinés par Foujita pour la représentation donnée en mai 1951 à la Scala." (An exhibition organized in the new Prada building of Tōkyō{{nbsp}}... presented the costumes designed by Foujita for the performance [of ''Madame Butterfly''] given in May 1951 at La Scala.")}} and did illustrations for a book by {{ill|René Héron de Villefosse|fr}}{{sfn|Selz|1981|p=83}} In 1954, Foujita married Kimiyo.{{sfn|Selz|1981|p=85}} They gained French nationality in 1955, renouncing their Japanese nationality, and Foujita was made an officer of the [[Legion of Honour|Legion of Honor]] by the French state in 1957.{{sfn|Lamia|2018|p=135}} The couple converted to [[Catholicism]] and were baptised in [[Reims Cathedral]] on 14 October 1959, with René Lalou, the head of the [[Mumm|Mumm Champagne House]], and Françoise [[Taittinger]] as his godfather and godmother. Foujita took the Christian name of Léonard.{{sfn|Selz|1981|p=86}}

After his conversion in 1959, Foujita dedicated most of his production to the creation of religious subjects.{{sfn|Le Diberder|2010|pp=56–91}} In 1962, Foujita created a plan to construct and decorate his own [[Foujita chapel|chapel]], as [[Henri Matisse|Matisse]] had done before him. Foujita hoped that the structure, named the Chapel of [[Our Lady of Peace]] and built with the help of Lalou's funding,{{sfnm|Birnbaum|2006|p=[https://archive.org/details/gloryinlinelifeo00birn/page/292 292]|Selz|1981|2p=88}} would symbolize the completion of his career.{{sfn|Liot|2010|p=106}} As it turned out, the chapel would also be the artist's final project. From 1963 until its opening to the public in 1966, he designed almost every aspect of the structure,{{sfn|Birnbaum|2006|p=[https://archive.org/details/gloryinlinelifeo00birn/page/292 292]}} decorating the interior with frescoes of biblical scenes, many of which illustrated the life of [[Christ]].{{sfn|Liot|2010|p=96–123}}

Only a few months after the opening of the chapel, Foujita was diagnosed with cancer. He died on January 29, 1968, in [[Zürich]], [[Switzerland]].{{sfn|Selz|1981|p=80}} He was first interred in the chapel, but Kimiyo had his body transferred to the Cimetière de [[Villiers-le-Bâcle]], near her. In 2003, his coffin was reinterred at the Foujita Chapel under the flagstones in the position he originally intended when constructing the chapel.{{sfn|Birnbaum|2006|p=[https://archive.org/details/gloryinlinelifeo00birn/page/290 290]}}