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Fernand Léger
Description
- Fernand Léger
- L'Équipe
- Signed with the intials F.L. and dated 44 (lower right)
- Gouache on tracing paper laid down on card
- 14 by 20 in.
- 35.6 by 50.8 cm
Provenance
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1966 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 2008, lot 161)
Acquired at the above sale
Condition
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Catalogue Note
This work is a representation of this vision of communal harmony, the relaxed poses an🎃d easy interaction between the figures suggesting a mutually supportive social order. Léger believed art was a progressive influence on the evolution of society, and sought to project a vision of an idealized society in which the individual has embraced an egalitarian social order. The interlocking composition of t🥀his work, in which the spokes of cycles, the limbs of the figures and the branches of the trees seem intertwined, is symbolic of the integration of nature, the individual and industrialized society in Léger's progressive, socialist future.
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CAPTION
Fig. 1 Fernand Léger, Les quatre cyclistes, oil on canvas, 1943-48, Musée National Fernand Léger,🐼 B𝄹iot