Takanori Ogisu

They were part of a group of Japanese painters who went to study in France, such as Foujita, Inokuma, and Sadami Yokote, in 1927.

[1] Ogisu settled in the district of Montparnasse, and frequented the painters of La Ruche, being particularly impressed by the paintings of Maurice Utrillo.

[2] In the 1930s, he occupied a studio at the foot of the Butte Montmartre, on rue Ordener, not far from his friends Inokuma and Foujita.

After a return to Japan, on the orders of the Vichy government (when he was appointed as a painter of the Japanese armies during the Second World War, but served only a few weeks on the two and a half years he was there, spending the rest of the time painting in Inazawa), Ogisu established himself definitively in 1948 in France, painting in bright colors the old picturesque districts, the old shops, haberdashery, paper mills, wine and liquor stores, wood, coal, and flower markets.

[3] He also traveled to Amsterdam, Ghent, Antwerp and Venice, composing colorful works with unusual framing.