Plongeurs

细节

Fernand Leger (1881-1955)
Plongeurs
signed with initials and dated 'F. L. 42' (lower center)
gouache, brush and India ink over pencil on paper squared for transfer
14 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. (36.8 x 29.7 cm.); irregular
Painted in 1942

来源

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (by 1944).
Perls Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

拍品专文

In September 1940, while waiting to embark on a ship that would take him to Lisbon, from which he would thereafter sail to New York, Léger watched some dockers diving off the quay and swimming in the harbor during a break from their labors. This became the impetus for the artist's Plongeurs series, which he painted in America in 1942. Léger later wrote, "I was immediately impressed by the trajectory of their bronzed bodies in the sunlight and the water. A wonderful, fluid movement. It was those divers who set off all the rest, the acrobats, the cyclists, the musicians." (quoted in J. Cassou and J. Leymarie, Fernand Leger Drawings and Gouaches, London 1973 p. 151).