Auction 299: Modern Art | 9 December 2020
Fernand Léger

The engineer (Les constructeurs)

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Fernand Léger
1881 Argentan – Gif-sur-Yvette 1955
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Lithograph on cream, slightly textured wove. (19)20. C. 28.5 x 24 cm (sheet: 41 x 31 cm). A copy from an edition of 125. Signed lower centre. Inscribed and numbered “2/4” by an unknown hand. With two circular red stamps inscribed “goe.” on the reverse (not mentioned in Lugt). Sheet 8 from the 4th “Die Schaffenden” portfolio, 2nd year, published by Paul Westheim, Berlin 1920. With an embossed stamp in the lower left.

Result: € 5,375*

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Shapire 2, dort mit dem Titel Composition aux deux personnages; Söhn HDO 72708-8.
Provenienz:
Privatbesitz, Hessen.

Description

Von fremder Hand bezeichnet und nummeriert “2/4”. Verso mit zwei roten Stempeln im Kreis “goe.” (nicht bei Lugt). Blatt 8 aus der 4. Mappe “Die Schaffenden”, II. Jahrgang, herausgegeben von Paul Westheim, Berlin 1920. Mit dem Prägestempel unten links.

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Modern Art

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