Lot 402
  • 402

Fernand Léger

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Fernand Léger
  • Projet pour une mosaïque
  • Signed FLeger and dedicated au professeur Hoffman son admirateur et ami (lower right); titled (lower left)
  • Gouache, watercolor and brush and ink on paper
  • 12 3/8 by 7 1/4 in.
  • 31.5 by 18.4 cm

Provenance

J. Hoffmann, Berlin (acquired from the artist)
Kunsthandel Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden aan de Maas
Private Collection, Netherlands (and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 25, 1997, lot 248)
Acquired at the above sale

Exhibited

Salzburg, Rupertinum Museum moderner Kunst, Fernand Léger. L'Esprit Moderne, 2002, no. VIII, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Alexander Dückers, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski (exhibition catalogue), Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 1999, illustrated p. 408 
Philip Rylands, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection (exhibition catalogue), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, 1999, illustrated p. 408

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper hinged to a mat at several places along top edge on verso. A few studio stains on the seet. Bottom edge is deckled, other edges are irregularly cut. Number 326 written in pencil on the verso. Black crayon applied lightly on the back of the sheet corresponding to where the image area is on recto. The perimeter of the sheet is reinforced with tape on the verso. Sheet is slightly time darkened, otherwise fine. This work is in generally very good condtiion.
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