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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Dec 6, 2025 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Day Sale | 107 | $****** - ****** | Composition |
Works on Paper
23.8 x 31.1 cm (9.37 x 12.24 in)
India ink drawing and white paint., On Michallet laid paper (with watermark).
Monogrammed in the lower right
Mireille Rougeot Collection, Paris (handwritten inscription on the reverse). Private collection, Germany. In family ownership since then.
Fernand Léger Dessins, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, Dec. 1970. F. Léger. Dessins, Musée Louisiana & Lyngby, Humlebaek, cat. no. 31 (illustrated).
Lempertz, Cologne, 576th auction, May 17, 1980, lot 391 (illustrated on plate 68).
Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Composition
Ca. 1920.
India ink drawing and white paint.
Monogrammed in the lower right. On Michallet laid paper (with watermark). Ca. 23.8 x 31.1 cm (9.3 x 12.2 in), size of sheet.
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• Exact, early drawing from the "période mécanique" (1918-1920).
• Homage to technology, the big city, and architecture: Léger"s visual language of the period represents the experience of modern man at the beginning of the 20th century.
• A comparable drawing from this creative period is in the collection of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; other drawings by the artist are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Tate Gallery, London
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With confirmation from the Comité Léger, Paris, on October 15, 2025. The work will be included in the online catalog raisonné of works on paper.
