The Foujita chapel in Reims completed in 1966, is an example of modern frescos, the interior being painted with religious scenes by the School of Paris painter Tsuguharu Foujita.

The Foujita chapel ( 1966 ), designed and decorated by the Japanese School of Paris artist Tsuguharu Foujita became famed for its frescos.

In the spring of 1917, the Russian sculptor Chana Orloff introduced him to a beautiful 19-year-old art student named Jeanne Hébuterne who had posed for Tsuguharu Foujita.

A few of the other artists who gathered in Montparnasse were Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, Ossip Zadkine, Carmelo Gonzalez, Julio Gonzalez, Moise Kisling, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Marios Varvoglis, Marc Chagall, Nina Hamnett, Jean Rhys, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Chaim Soutine, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Amedeo Modigliani, Ford Madox Ford, Toño Salazar, Ezra Pound, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, Henri Rousseau, Constantin Brâncuşi, Paul Fort, Juan Gris, Diego Rivera, Federico Cantú, Angel Zarraga, Marevna, Tsuguharu Foujita, Marie Vassilieff, Léon-Paul Fargue, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, André Breton, Alfonso Reyes, Pascin, Salvador Dalí, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Emil Cioran, Reginald Gray, Joan Miró and, in his declining years, Edgar Degas.

When Tsuguharu Foujita arrived from Japan in 1913 not knowing a soul, he met Soutine, Modigliani, Pascin and Leger virtually the same night and within a week became friends with Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

Ink and watercolor portrait on paper by Tsuguharu Foujita

By 1925, Tsuguharu Foujita had received the Belgian Order of Leopold and the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor.

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* Tsuguharu Foujita or Fujita, ( 1886 – 1968 ), Japanese artist, who spent much of his career in France

He was married to Youki Desnos, formerly Lucie Badoud, nicknamed " Youki " (" snow ") by her lover Tsuguharu Foujita before she left him for Desnos.

She met several of the then-starving artists and modeled for Tsuguharu Foujita.

Ogata Gekkō and Tsuguharu Foujita crated woodblock prints for Japanese publications.

* Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita ( Japan, France )

Many of these same artists, plus Jean Arp, Amedeo Modigliani, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Joan Miró, Constantin Brâncuşi, Raoul Dufy, René Iché, Tsuguharu Foujita, Emmanuel Mané-Katz ; the Artists from Belarus, including Chaim Soutine, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipschitz ; the Russian prince born in Saint Petersburg Alexis Arapoff, and others worked in Paris between World War I and World War II, in various styles including Surrealism and Dada.

* Tsuguharu Foujita ( in France from 1913 to 1931 )

André Derain, Georges Braque, Othon Friesz, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, James Dickson Innes and Tsuguharu Fujita have all been inspired by Collioure's royal castle, medieval streets, its lighthouse converted into the church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges and its typical Mediterranean bay.

Foujita claimed in his memoir that he met Picasso less than a week after his arrival, but a recent biographer, relying on letters Foujita sent to his first wife in Japan, clearly shows that it was several months until he met Picasso.

The trip was not, however, a success and the group had to survive on the advances that Foujita had obtained from his Paris dealer.

* Leonard Foujita ( 1886 – 1968 )

In 1910 when he was twenty-four years old Foujita graduated from what is now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

In 2003, his coffin was reinterred at the Foujita chapel under the flagstones in the position he originally intended when constructing the chapel.

This trend was further developed by Leonard Foujita and the Nika Society, to encompass surrealism.

In March 1917 in the Café de la Rotonde, Foujita met a young lady by the name of Fernande Barrey.

The last house and studio of Foujita in Villiers-le-Bâcle

On his return to France, Foujita converted to Catholicism.

This is reflected in his last major work, at the age of 80, the design, building and decoration of the Foujita chapel in the gardens of the Mumm champagne house in Reims, France, which he completed in 1966, not long before his death.

The Foujita chapel in Reims, France is dedicated to Our Lady, Queen of Peace, as a reaction to the horror and devastation caused by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

On a trip to Nice which had been conceived and organized by Leopold Zborowski, Modigliani, Foujita and other artists tried to sell their works to rich tourists.

Foujita had his first studio at no.

Many models came over to Foujita's place to enjoy this luxury, among them Man Ray's very liberated lover, Kiki, who boldly posed for Foujita in the nude in the outdoor courtyard.

However, early the next morning, Foujita showed up at Fernande's place with a blue corsage he had made overnight.

Foujita and his wife went along as did Soutine, Modigliani with his lover, Jeanne Hébuterne.

After the breakup of his third marriage, and his flight to Brazil in 1931 ( with his new love, Mady ), Foujita traveled and painted all over Latin America, giving hugely successful exhibitions along the way.

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