AFTER FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
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AFTER FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)

Tête de constructeur

Details
AFTER FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Tête de constructeur
signed with initials 'F.L' (lower right)
mosaic
35 ½ x 29 ¾ in. (90.2 x 75.6 cm.)
Conceived in 1951; this unique mosaic executed by Heidi Melano under the supervision of Georges Bauquier
Provenance
Georges Bauquier, Callian, France (then by descent).
Evelyne Robert-Camard, Paris.
Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière, Paris (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, circa 2010.

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Lot Essay

Fernand Léger produced numerous studies, drawings, gouaches, and paintings on the theme of builders, which fascinated him for many years. The present unique mosaic was executed after an eponymous lithograph by Léger, Le Constructeur, made for the cover of the 1951 Maison de la Pensée Française exhibition Fernand Léger: Les constructeurs et sculptures polychromes.
Léger appreciated the creative possibilities of other media and regularly worked with murals, stained glass and mosaics. The present work was created in mosaic after the original lithograph and was previously in the private collection of Georges Bauquier.

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