Lot 302
  • 302

Fernand Léger

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • Fernand Léger
  • Quatre mains: Les constructeurs - rectoÉtude de main - verso
  • signed with the initials FL and dated 51 (lower right)
  • pen and ink on paper - recto
    pencil on paper - verso
  • 42.8 by 32cm., 16 3/4 by 12 1/2 in.

Provenance

Nadia Léger, Paris (the artist's wife)
Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot (bequeathed by the above by 1980)
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, 14th May 1998, lot 360
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs & Brussels, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1956, no. 213, illustrated in the catalogue
Montréal, Musée d'Art Contemporain & Québec, Musée du Québec, Fernand Léger témoin de son temps, 1970
Warsaw, National Museum, Fernand Léger, 1971
Paris, Grand Palais, Fernand Léger, 1971-72, no. 211, illustrated p. 141
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, 1980, no. 277, illustrated p. 500
Salzburg, Museum Moderner Kunst, Fernand Léger: L'Esprit Moderne, 2002, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, no. 170, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Alexander Dückers, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin, 1999, illustrated p. 409

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and taped to the overmount in two places. The left edge is perforated and there are losses relating to its tear from a sketch book. There is mount-staining along the edges and there are a few minor spots of foxing. The sheet is very slightly undulating at the upper left corner. There is a sketch of a hand on the reverse of the sheet. Overall this work is in good condition.
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