Lot 562
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Fernand Léger
Les Plongeurs, 1942.
Gouache and ink brush drawing over pencil
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,250 Sold:
€ 25,625 / $ 28,956 (incl. surcharge)
Les Plongeurs. 1942.
Gouache and ink brush drawing over pencil.
Monogrammed and dated in lower right. On brownish wove paper. 17.8 x 22.5 cm (7 x 8.8 in), size of sheet.
Subtle squares in pencil suggest a later execution in a larger format. Verso with a figurative pencil drawing. [CH].
• Fascinating entwinenemnt of bodies
• Léger forms a kinf of ornament from a tamd mas of bodies
• Highly artificial mesh of different pictorial components
• Another version of this theme is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Accompanied by a photo expertise from Irus Hansma, Paris, dated November 2019. The work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné of works on paper.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Netherlands.
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 360, Modern Art, December 12, 2009, lot no. 202.
Gouache and ink brush drawing over pencil.
Monogrammed and dated in lower right. On brownish wove paper. 17.8 x 22.5 cm (7 x 8.8 in), size of sheet.
Subtle squares in pencil suggest a later execution in a larger format. Verso with a figurative pencil drawing. [CH].
• Fascinating entwinenemnt of bodies
• Léger forms a kinf of ornament from a tamd mas of bodies
• Highly artificial mesh of different pictorial components
• Another version of this theme is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Accompanied by a photo expertise from Irus Hansma, Paris, dated November 2019. The work will be included into the forthcoming catalog raisonné of works on paper.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Netherlands.
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction 360, Modern Art, December 12, 2009, lot no. 202.
562
Fernand Léger
Les Plongeurs, 1942.
Gouache and ink brush drawing over pencil
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 28,250 Sold:
€ 25,625 / $ 28,956 (incl. surcharge)
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