Sep 19, 2017 - Sale 2454

Sale 2454 - Lot 455

Unsold
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
FERNAND LÉGER
Composition (pour Arthur Rimbaud Illuminations).

Gouache on paper, 1950. 318x242 mm; 12 1/2x9 1/2 inches. Initialed and dated in gouache, lower right recto, and extensively annotated in pen and blue ink, verso. With the Louis Grosclaude, Éditeur, ink stamp, verso.

A gouache design for Les Illuminations, 1949 (see Saphire 34). Saphire notes, "Many gouaches on themes found in Les Illuminations were done during and after the work on the book."