FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955) BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER,... Lot 20

FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955) BUTTERFLY AND FLOWER, 1937 Gouache on paper Signed with the initials and dated '37' lower right Gouache on paper; signed with the artist's initials and dated '37' lower right 24,3 X 32 CM - 9 5/8 X 12 5/8 IN. - - The Léger Committee has confirmed the authenticity of this work. A certificate from Mrs. Irus Hansma, dated May 2023 will be given to the buyer. - - EXHIBITION Musée de Lille, Aspects de la peinture contemporaine, from June 27 to August 31, 1970 - - "The composition takes precedence over everything else: the lines, the forms and the colors, in order to take on their maximum expression, must be used with the most logic possible. It is the logical spirit that will have to obtain the greatest result, and I mean by logic in art, the one who has the possibility of ordering his sensitivity. To know how to give to the concentration of the means a maximum of effects in the result." Fernand Léger, in Retrospective, Maeght Foundation, 1988 - - Freed from the rigor of cubism, emancipated from its sometimes severe cult of form, Fernand Léger reveals in the 1930s his creative and poetic freedom, all personal. The work we present is characteristic of his work at that time: Fernand Léger was interested in primary colors and simple forms, which gives these works, designated as figurative by their title, a character of recomposition of the world through the passage through abstraction. - The artist considers his straight lines in black ink and his simplified geometric forms as pure plastic elements, organized in the composition by the relationship of their particular conformations with the colored backgrounds on which they are placed.