Personnage au pantalon bleu

細節

Fernand Leger (1881-1955)
Personnage au pantalon bleu
signed and dedicated 'Fernand Léger a miss ann son ami' (lower right)
watercolor and brush and India ink over pencil on paper
10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (27 x 20.6 cm.)

來源

Ann Sweeney, Paris (gift from the artist, circa 1930s).
By descent from the above to the present owners.

拍品專文

In the early 1930s, James Johnson Sweeney and his family spent half of each year in Paris, where he was editor of the literary magazine Transitions. When the Germans occupied Paris, they confiscated all of his young daughter Ann's toys. In a show of compassion and warmth, Léger gave this colorful drawing to his friends' daughter Ann with a dedication and sketch of a little toy train. In 1935, Sweeney and his family moved permanently to New York City, where Sweeney was appointed by Alfred Barr as Director of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.