Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
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Fernand Léger (1881-1955)

Deux femmes

Closed28 February 2018

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Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
Deux femmes
signed with the initials, dated and inscribed 'etude pour les 3 figures F.L 32' (lower centre)
pen and India ink on paper
14 1/2 x 12 in. (36.8 x 30.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1932

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (no. 14088).
Private collection, Europe, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

‘If pictorial expression has changed, it is because modern life has necessitated it. The existence of modern creative people is much more intense and more complex than that of people in earlier centuries.‘
F. Léger, 1914, in E.F. Fry, ed., Functions of Painting, London, 1973, p. 11.

Deux femmes was executed in 1932, most likely in Paris. Despite being visually quite different, the drawing served as a study for the painting Les trois figures from the same year, belonging to the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.