Mar 04, 2021 - Sale 2560

Sale 2560 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
FERNAND LÉGER
Portrait de Rimbaud.

Gouache and watercolor on Japon ancienne, 1949. 495x356 mm; 16 1/2x14 inches. Initialed and dated in gouache, lower right recto.

A preliminary design for the same-titled lithograph with color pochoir from Les Illuminations (Saphire 24; see lot 317). Signed and annotated by the publisher Louis Grosclaude, Lausanne, in pencil and with the black ink stamp, verso.

Ex-collection private collection, Houston.