Fernand Léger (1881-1955)

Femme au perroquet

Details

Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
Femme au perroquet
signed with initials and dated 'F.L. 41' (lower right)
watercolor, pen, brush and India ink and white gouache over pencil on paper
23 x 14½ in. (58.4 x 36.7 cm.)
Painted in 1941

Provenance

Saidenberg Gallery, New York.
Mildred Somach, New York (acquired from the above, late 1940's).
By descent from the above to the present owner, 1979.

Lot Essay

Femme au perroquet is related to a series of large figure compositions that Léger began in the late 1930's, the culmination of which was the largest painting he had done to date, Composition aux deux perroquets (1935-1939; Bauquier, no. 881; coll. Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris). Throughout the 1940's Léger continued to explore the theme of women and birds, and employed bands of color as a foundation for his late manner of depicting figures in space.

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