Fernand Leger-Le Cirque-19.75" x 25.5"-Poster-1986-Modernism-Multicolor-Dance

1986

This reproduction lithograph, titled Le Jeu by Fernand Léger, is a beautifully crafted piece printed on high-quality ARCHES paper. Originally created in 1948, this lithograph capture...

Paper Size: 19.5 x 24.75 inches ( 49.53 x 62.865 cm ) Image Size: 12.5 x 17.25 inches ( 31.75 x 43.815 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Ad...

Very larger poster to advertise The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Printed in the United Kingdom.

Paper Size: 38 x 21.5 inches ( 96.52 x 54.61 cm ) Image Size: 30.25 x 18.5 inches ( 76.835 x 46.99 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Suppleme...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Éditions Verve, Paris, under the direction of Tériade, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, October 5, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), "Cirque" is entirely composed, handwritten text and illustrations, of original lithographs by Fernand Léger. This album was produced by Fernand Léger with the collaboration of Tériade and Marguerite Lang. It was completed printing on the presses de Mourlot Frères, on October 5, 1950, for Les Éditions Verve, Paris. The edition of this album includes two CCLXXX examples numbered from I to CCLXXX and XX hors-commerce examples. Numbered from I to XX. All examples, on vélin d'Arches, are signed by the artist [on the colophon]. Catalogue raisonné reference: Léger, F., & Saphire, L. (1978). Fernand Léger : the complete graphic work. Blue Moon Press, 44-106. History of the edition: Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...

Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...