(after) Fernand Léger

"La belle equipe" lithograph

1952

Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed in 1952 by Mourlot Freres on Arches paper and published in Paris by Louis Carre in an edition of 1000 for the rare "La Figure dans L'O...

Medium: original lithograph. This was first executed for XXe Siecle in 1952; this impression is from the second printing in 1971 (Homage to Leger), also published by XXe Siecle. Shee...

Medium: offset lithograph (after Leger). Printed on Velin bouffant paper from the Papeteries de Hauteville and published by Edito-Service Geneve in 1980. T...

Medium: lithograph (after the painting). Printed in 1952 by Mourlot Freres on Arches paper and published in Paris by Louis Carre in an edition of 1000 for the rare "La Figure dans L'...

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 realized after Fernand Léger in 1959, on Moulin Richard de Bas paper. Monogrammed in the plate. It belongs to the suite "Contrastes", printed by Daniel Jacomet and publi...

A superb impression of this offset lithograph with vibrant pochoir color. Signed and numbered in ink, from an edition of 185.

Paper Size: 20 x 36 inches ( 50.8 x 91.44 cm ) Image Size: 20 x 30.5 inches ( 50.8 x 77.47 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B-: Good Condition, Signs of Handling and Age Supplemental C...