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Paintings from the Collection
of Margaruitte Foisie

Lots 658 - 659

Ms. Foisie was born in 1926 to Russian immigrants living in Shanghai.
Except for a few years early in life when her family resided in Dalian
and Hankou, she lived in Shanghai until late 1948. It was there that
she met her husband, Philip Foisie, in 1945, who was with the U.S.
armed forces military intelligence and was the lone U.S. soldier as-
signed to accompany Chinese units fighting against the Japanese in
the Salween River Campaign near Burma and in southern and central
China.

Mr. and Mrs. Foisie were married in Shanghai in 1948; later that year
they went to the United States. Initially residing in the San Francisco
area, and later in Louisville, KY., they moved to the Washington, DC
area in 1955 where Mr. Foisie, some years later, became foreign edi-
tor of the Washington Post. The Foisie's remained in Washington until
1981, when Mr. Foisie became Executive Editor of the International
Herald Tribune in Paris. They lived in Paris for six years, and subse-
quently returned to the Washington, DC area, where Mrs. Foisie lived
for the next 30 years until her death in 2017.
Margauritte Foisie as a young child
in Shanghai, 1927-1928
瑪格麗特幼年時在上海, 1927-1928
瑪格麗特･弗伊斯珍藏中國書畫

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1926年，弗伊斯女士出生於一個居住在上海的俄國移民家庭。童年時
期，她隨父母分別在大連和漢口居住，但大部分時間是在上海長大的。
菲利浦･弗伊斯先生在1945年作為美軍情報部門工作人員被派駐到中
國，曾協助中方在中緬邊境反擊日軍。1948年，弗伊斯女士和菲利浦在
上海相遇相識，兩人於同年結婚。

婚後不久，弗伊斯夫婦返回美國舊金山灣區居住。之後也在肯塔基州的
路易斯維爾短暫生活過一段時間。1955年，弗伊斯先生在華盛頓郵報社
獲得了海外新聞部編輯一職，兩人遂搬到華盛頓定居。1981年，弗伊斯
先生接受了國際先驅論壇報社駐巴黎執行總編的職位，弗伊斯女生便隨
其先生在巴黎生活工作了六年。從國際先驅論壇報社離職後，弗伊斯夫
婦重返華盛頓生活，直到2017年弗伊斯女士去世。

Margauritte and Philip Foisie
in Shanghai, 1948
1948年瑪格麗特和菲利浦在上海

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