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== Legacy and collections == After the war, Foujita had a reputation in Japan as a war criminal.<ref name=":8" />{{Rp|page=98}} Writing in 1972, the artist Kikuhata Mokuma published an essay in the art magazine ''Bijutsu techō'' argued that Foujita was one of many artists responsible for the horros of war, describing Foujita as a narcissistic artist who took pleasure in depicting death.<ref>Kikuhata Mokuma, "Dear Foujita....An Examination of the Pacific War Record Paintings", ''Bijutsu techō,'' March 1972, trans. Justin Jesty and reproduced on Bunka-cho Art Platform Japan, 2022: artplatform.go.jp/resources/readings/R202209 (accessed 29 April 2023).</ref> Foujita's reputation, and his place in Japanese twentieth-century art history, remains a contested subject in Japan today.<ref>See: Masaaki Ozaki, "Foujita et le Japon. À travers le prisme de la critique japonaise de l'époque", in ''Foujita 1886-1968. Oeuvres d'une vie,'' exh. cat., Paris, Maison de la culture du Japon, 2019, p. 51-60 and Katsunori Fukaya, "Tsuguharu Foujita and Japan", in Lamia Guillaume (ed.), ''La donation Foujita'', Gand, Éditions Snoeck and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, 2018, p. 162-166.</ref> A successful retrospective of his work was held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, in 2006, entitled ''Léonard Foujita: Non-Japanese Who Fascinated Paris,'' and others have followed, indicating the will of Japanese museums to engage with Foujita's oeuvre. The 2006 retrospective featured five war paintings in an effort to address his war responsibility.<ref name=":8" />{{Rp|page=101}} In France, Foujita remains associated primarily with the ''École de Paris'' and the ''années folles'' of the [[roaring twenties]].{{sfn|McDonald|2019|p=132}} He is known for his lighthearted and dainty subjects: Parisian streetscapes, cats, voluptuous women, everyday objects. An important exhibition of his work at the [[Musée Maillol]] in 2018, ''Foujita: peindre dans les années folles'' [Foujita: Painting in the Roaring Twenties], focused on his production before his return to Japan. An exhibition presenting the ensemble of Foujita's work, including his wartime production, was organized by the [[Centre Pompidou]] and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in 1980, but was canceled at the last minute.<ref name=":10">Yōko Hayashi, "Foujita, une rétrospective. En guise d'introduction", in ''Foujita 1886-1968. Oeuvres d'une vie,'' exh. cat., Paris, Maison de la culture du Japon, 2019, p. 14-33.</ref>{{Rp|page=17}} In 2019, the exhibition ''Foujita 1886-1968. Oeuvres d'une vie'' [''Foujita 1886-1968. A Life's Work''] organized at the [[Japanese Culture House of Paris]] and based on the exhibition ''Foujita: A Retrospective'', shown at the [[Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum]] in 2018, presented for the first time in France an overview of Foujita's sixty years of artistic production. It included two of the artists' war paintings, shown for the first time outside of Japan, permitting the French public to understand Foujita's career beyond his years in Montparnasse.<ref name=":10" />{{Rp|page=16}} [[File:Foujita.JPG|thumb|Maison-Atelier Foujita, Villiers le Bacle, Essonne, France]] In 1990, Kimiyo Foujita donated the home she shared with the artist to the [[Departmental Council of Essonne]] so that Foujita's atelier could become a museum, the [https://foujita.essonne.fr/ Maison-Atelier Foujita]. In Japan, Foujita's works can be found in the [[Artizon Museum]] and the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo|Museum of Contemporary Art]] in Tokyo, with more than 100 in the [[Akita Museum of Art|Hirano Masakichi Art Museum]] in [[Akita (city)|Akita]]. His works are also part of major French collections, such as those of the Centre Pompidou, the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris|Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris]], and Paris' [[Fonds national d'art contemporain]]. Further works can also be found at the [[Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art|Musée d'art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg]], the [[Museum of Grenoble|Musée de Grenoble]], and the Musée de [[La Piscine Museum|la Piscine]] in [[Roubaix]]. Foujita's nephew donated some of his works and writings to the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Reims|Musée des beaux-arts of Reims]] in 2012.<ref>Catherine Delot, "The Foujita Donation", in Lamia Guillaume (ed.), ''La donation Foujita,'' Gand, Éditions Snoeck and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, 2018, p.158-159.</ref>
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