Lot n° 71
Estimation :
200000 - 300000
EUR
Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955)
"Portrait of Marguerite Lesbats" 1949
Oil on canvas
Signed F. LIGHT and dated 49 bottom right
On the back, dedicated "A Madame Marguerite Lesbats, Amicalement", countersigned on the back, bears the exhibition labels n12 and n14
46 x 38 cm
Exhibitions:
- 1963: Moscow, Musee Pouchkine
- 1966: Marseille, Musée Cantini, "Fernand Léger", N°71, reproduced.
- 1972: - Tokyo, Seibu Galleries
- Nagoya, Meitetsu Galleries
- Fukuoka, Cultural Centre, "Rétrospective Fernand léger" N°66, reproduced.
Bibliography:
- Maurois (André) "Mon ami Léger" and Léger (Fernand), "Comment je conçoit la Figure". Paris, Louis Carré Éditeur 1952, Reproduced in colour, in frontispiece.
- Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné 1949-1951, Adrien Maeght éditeur, 2003, N°1315 reproduced p.13
- Retrospective Fernand Léger, 1972, Japan Mainichi n 66
Frank ELGAR, whose real name is Roger LESBATS, received this portrait of his wife "Marguerite Lesbats" as a gift from his friend Fernand LEGER. The purchaser will be given a postcard of this work published for the exhibition in Japan as well as the photographic print from the microfilm and photography workshop of the city of Marseille used for the exhibition catalogue under N°71.
There are only a few portraits of this kind painted at the same time of which:
- the one of Paul ELUARD kept at the Paul Eluard Museum in Saint-Denis, whose writer will say of him when he discovered it: "there was only one portrait in this gallery but it was radiant with resemblance"
- the one of Nadia Léger, the daughter of the painter, of whom we will sell part of her correspondence with Frank ELGAR.
Under his real name Roger Lesbats, Frank Elgar received as a gift from his friend Fernand Leger, this portrait of his wife "Marguerite Lesbats".
The buyer will also get a postcard of the original painting that was sp
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