Attributed to Fernand Leger

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Attributed to Fernand Leger
A Wool Rug, circa 1930*
approximately: 92½ x 47½ in. (235 x 120.6 cm.)
embroidered on reverse MYRBOR

Specialist note

Susan Day, Art Deco and Modernist Carpets, San Francisco, 2002, p. 132, no. 180 for a comparable rug by Leger

Lisa Schlansker Kolosek, The Invention of Chic: Thérèse Bonney and Paris Moderne, New York, 2002, p. 54

This carpet, likely titled, Green, is most likely part of a series Léger produced for the Myrbor Gallery based on the principles of Purism. Resembling collages, their names were determined by the color of the grounds, White, Red, Yellow etc.