D'après Fernand Léger
Blanc rug
Auction Closed
May 28, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
After Fernand Léger
Blanc rug
Designed circa 1927
Knotted-wool
Signature F.LEGER in the weft on the reverse
271 x 136 cm; 106 ¾ x 53 ½ in.
Alexandre Iolas collection, Paris
André Mourgues collection, gifted by the above
Sotheby's, Paris, 17 March 2022, lot 74
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private collection, France
Contemporary French Tapestries, exhibition catalogue, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries Inc., New York, 1965, p. 4 and 29
Susan Day, Rob Mallet-Stevens, architecte, Paris, 1980, p. 279 and 280
Tapis de maîtres – Arp, Calder, Cocteau, Derain, Ernst, Klee, Léger, Miro, Nicholson, Picasso, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1988, p.16
Jacques Sirat, Françoise Siriex, Tapis français du XXe siècle : de l’art nouveau aux créations contemporaines, Paris, 1993, p. 224
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger : Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Tome III, 1925-1928, Paris, 2000, p. 82, 83
Jean-Pierre Lyonnet, Robert Mallet Stevens, Paris, 2005, p.71
Dominique Paulvé, Marie Cuttoli, Myrbor et l'invention de la tapisserie moderne, Paris, 2010, p.44
This carpet is based on an oil-on-canvas painting, Peinture Murale, 1926 (The Menil Collection, Houston), illustrated in Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Tome III, 1925-1928, Paris, 2000, no. 437, p. 82, illustrated p. 83.