Important Design

After Fernand Léger

Blanc rug

VAT standard rate

Estimate

18,000 - 24,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

After Fernand Léger

Blanc rug

Designed circa 1927, our example made between 1949 and the late 1960s

Knotted-wool

Edited by Marie Cuttoli and Lucie Weill-Seligmann, Paris

Embroidered LEGER on the underside

260 x 146 cm ; 102 ⅜ x 57 ½ in.

Private collection, United States, acquired from the Atelier Madoura in Vallauris in 1982

Teppiche, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, October - November 1961, n. p.

Contemporary French Tapestries, exhibition catalogue, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries Inc., New York, 1965, p. 4 and 29

Tapis de Maîtres, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Lucie Weill-Seligmann, Paris, 1988, p. 16

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, referenced under n° 437, p. 82 and reproduced p. 83.

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