Fernand Léger, Composition circulaire
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300000 SEK
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100 000-125 000 SEK
Beskrivning
FERNAND LÉGER
France 1881-1955
Composition circulaire
Signed and dated F.L.42. Gouache on paper, 25 x 29 cm.
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PROVENANCE
IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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The painting will be included in the forthcoming Répertoire des oeuvres sur papier de Fernand Léger by Irus Hansma.
Photocertificate issued by Irus Hansma included.
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Fernand Léger Composition circulaire
Fernand Léger was one of the great pioneers of the 1900s - an innovator of form and a brilliant colourist. His paintings are distinguished by cylindrical and curved shapes with clear contours and strong colour contrasts. He made a deep impression on art history, both as a painter and as a theorist. At the age of 19, the extremely outspoken and physically powerful Léger travelled to Paris with the financial support of André Mare and Henri Viel, two artists from his home town. Léger was accepted at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs but was denied entrance to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
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He later settled in ´La Rûche´, a building in Paris that contained inexpensive artists´ studios, where he met a number of avant-garde artists and poets including Archipenko, Robert Delaunay, Chagall, Henri Laurens and Modigliani. It was around this time - aged 25 - that he began working seriously as an artist. Léger soon discovered the work of Paul Cézanne, which proved decisive in his subsequent oeuvre. In 1909, he painted La Couseuse, which was his first Cubist work and strongly influenced by Cézanne. In his work Nus dans la Fôret, from 1909-10, Léger created his own version of Cubism, which critics facetiously termed ´tubism´ as they considered it to feature far too many cylindrical shapes.
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On the outbreak of the Second World War, Léger decided to flee to New York. He arrived in the global metropolis in 1940 and found employment as a teacher at Yale University. At the premises of the French art dealer Pierre Matisse in the Fuller Building on 41 East 57th Street, he met other artists in exile - Max Ernst, Chagall, Breton, Matta and Mondrian, to name but a few. It was around this time that circular movement came to play a significant role in several of his compositions.
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The gouache in this collection is a finely worked preliminary study for the grand oil painting Contraste d´objets sur fond polychrome from 1943-50.
Auktionsnummer:
9
Datum:
2016-11-15