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FERNAND LEGER
Les Lutteurs
1923
pencil on paper
9 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches
24.4 x 31.8 cms
signed, titled and
dated lower right 'Les lutteurs,
FL 23, (Fragment)'
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Provenance:
Perls Galleries, New York
Reis-Cohen, New York from whom purchased in 1968
Private Collection, New York
Exhibitions:
Fernand Leger, curated by Katherine Kuh, The Art Institute of Chicago,
April 2- May 17, 1953, traveling exhibition: The San Francisco Museum of Art,
June 15- August 15, 1953; The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
September 15- November 15, 1953, no. 81.
Literature:
"The Examiner," San Francisco, California, July 12, 1953, illustrated
Note:
This exceptional drawing s closely related to an earlier image with approximately the same dimension and also titled "The Wrestlers", dated 1921, originally in the collection of Mr. And Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg, New York, reproduced in Jean Cassou and Jean Leymarie, Leger: Drawings and Gouaches, p. 73, no. 88.
The noted Leger scholar, Christian Derouet, explains that while the artist made several drawings of this subject in the early 1920s, the hair and mustache styles are more indicative of the turn of the century. He suggest that these works reflect Leger's homage to the work of Henri Rousseau.
Fernand Leger's Biography
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