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Léger, Composition, mes voyages (after)

1970

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Lithograph on vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Fernand Léger mes voyages avec un poème d'aragon et des lithographies de l’auteur, 1970. Published by Editeurs Français Réunis, Paris, and Production Edito-Service S.A., Le Grand-Saconnex, Canton of Genève, 1970; rendered by Mourlot Frères, Paris; printed by Production Edito-Service S.A., Le Grand-Saconnex, Canton of Genève and Italy. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Printing was finished in October 1960 on the presses of François Monod. The lithographs of Fernand Léger were pulled by the care of Mourlot Frères under the supervision of Nadia Léger. It was taken from this folio CCLXXXI examples on vélin d'Arches, including a single example with an original drawing, the manuscript of the poem and a complete double suite marked UN; V examples with a black and color suite marked from II to VI; V examples with a black suite marked from VII to XI; CCL examples marked from XII to CCLI and XXX non-commerce copies marked from H.C. I to H.C. XXX. This facsimile edition, 25 x 35 cm, was drawn with permission Editeurs Français Réunis, à Paris, on Vélin bouffant des Papeteries de Hauteville. Production Edito-Service S.A. Genève, printed in Italy. FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art. Léger was born in Argentan, Orne, Lower Normandy, where his father raised cattle. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897 to 1899, before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles, Yvelines, in 1902–1903, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts after his application to the École des Beaux-Arts was rejected. He nevertheless attended the Beaux-Arts as a non-enrolled student, spending what he described as "three empty and useless years" studying with Gérôme and others, while also studying at the Académie Julian. He began to work seriously as a painter only at the age of 25. At this point his work showed the influence of impressionism, as seen in Le Jardin de ma mère (My Mother's Garden) of 1905, one of the few paintings from this period that he did not later destroy. A new emphasis on drawing and geometry appeared in Léger's work after he saw the Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d'Automne in 1907. In 1909, he moved to Montparnasse and met Alexander Archipenko, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall, Joseph Csaky and Robert Delaunay. In 1910, he exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in the same room (salle VIII) as Jean Metzinger and Henri Le Fauconnier. In his major painting of this period, Nudes in the Forest, Léger displays a personal form of Cubism that his critics termed "Tubism" for its emphasis on cylindrical forms. In 1911, the hanging committee of the Salon des Indépendants placed together the painters identified as 'Cubists'. Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Le Fauconnier, Delaunay and Léger were responsible for revealing Cubism to the general public for the first time as an organized group. The following year he again exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and Indépendants with the Cubists, and joined with several artists, including Le Fauconnier, Metzinger, Gleizes, Francis Picabia and the Duchamp brothers, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp to form the Puteaux Group—also called the Section d'Or (The Golden Section) paintings, from then until 1914, became increasingly abstract. Their tubular, conical, and cubed forms are laconically rendered in rough patches of primary colors plus green, black and white, as seen in the series of paintings with the title Contrasting Forms. Léger made no use of the collage technique pioneered by Braque and Picasso.
  • Creation Year:
    1970
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 13.78 in (35.01 cm)Width: 9.84 in (25 cm)
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  • After:
    Fernand Léger (1881-1955, French)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Auburn Hills, MI
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1465214473352

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