Le perroquet

Details

Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
Le perroquet
gouache, watercolour, India ink and pencil on paper
10¾ x 8¼in. (27.1 x 21cm.)
Executed circa 1940

Provenance

Gift from the artist to Tériade, circa 1950.

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Lot Essay

The present work is related to a series of large figure compositions that Léger began in the late 1930s, the culmination of which was the largest painting he had done to date, Composition aux deux perroquets (1935-1939; Bauquier, no. 881; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris). Throughout the 1940s Léger continued to explore this theme of women and birds.

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