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Title: The Children's Garden, Or Kindergarten
Medium: Ceramic Sculpture
Ceramic Dimensions: 25" X 20" (63.5 X 50.8 Cm)
Dimensions with Base: 28.25" X 23" (71.6 X 58.42 Cm)
Greatest Height: 25" (63.5 Cm) + 2" Base
Signature: This Work Has A Guaranteed Authentic Signature By Leger, 'F. Leger' In Black On The Right Side Of The Base.
Edition: From the Very Rare and Limited Edition of Only Eight, This Piece Is Numbered 6/8 In Black On The Right Side Of The Base
Provenance:
Private Collection, London
Documentation:
1) deFrancia, Fernand Leger, new Yaven, 1983, monumental version illustrated as plate 58.
2) G. Bauquier, Fernand Leger, Vivre dans La Vrai, Paris 1987, monumental version illustrated on p. 338-39.
3) Y. Brunhammer, Fernand Leger: The Monumental Art, Milan 2005, illustrated on page 164 (the illustrated cast shown here is the actually cast we are selling).
4) Masterworks Fine Art, Inc. Certificate of Authenticity accompanies this work.
Price: $75,000

Title: Le Grand Coq (The Large Rooster) (1952)
Medium: Ceramic Sculpture
Greatest Width: 11" (27.9 Cm)
Greatest Height: 19.5" (49.5 Cm)
Signature: This Work Has A Guaranteed Authentic Signature By Leger, 'F. Leger' In Black On The Side Of The Base.
Edition: From the Very Rare and Limited Edition of Only Eight, This Piece Is Numbered 6/8 In Black On The Underside Of The Base.
Provenance:
Private Collection, London
Documentation:
1) Brunhammer, Yvonne. Fernand Leger: The Monumental Art. Listed and illustrated as cat. no. 174 on page 165.
2) Masterworks Fine Art, Inc. Certificate of Authenticity accompanies
Price: $35,500

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Title: Tête Et Cactus (Head And Cactus) 1954
Medium: Original Color Lithograph
Image Size: 10.6" X 13.7" (27 X 35 Cm)
Sheet Size: 13.75" X 17" (34.93 X 43.18cm)
Framed Size: 33 5/8" X 30 3/8" (85.42cm X 77.12cm)
Signature: Hand Signed By Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) In Blue Ink In The Lower Right Margin.
Edition: Numbered 75/200 In Pencil In The Lower Left Margin.
Condition: In Good Condition With Strong Bold Colors.
Illustrated in: Saphire E9.
Price: $7,000

Title: L'échafaudage Au Soleil (Scaffolding To The Sun) 1951
Medium: Original Color Lithograph
Image Size: 17 7/8" X 13 3/8" (45.42cm X 34cm)
Sheet Size: 26" X 19 ¾" (66.04cm X 50.17cm)
Framed Size: 36 ¼" X 32 ½" (92.08cm X 82.55cm)
Signature: Hand Signed By Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) In Blue Ink In The Lower Right Margin.
Edition: Numbered 14/75 In Pencil In The Lower Left Margin.
Condition: In Good Condition With Strong Bold Colors.
Illustrated in: Saphire E112.
Price: $7,000

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Title: Untitled Rectangular Composition
(circa 1954-5)
Medium: Original Color Serigraph
Image Size: 16 ¼" X 8 7/8" (41.28cm X 22.56cm)
Framed Size: 34 5/8" X 25 ¼" (87.96cm X 64.14cm)
Signature: Hand Signed In Ink By Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) In The Lower Right Margin. Also Signed In The Print With The Artist's Initials, 'F.L. 24' In The Lower Right.
Edition: Numbered 49/200 In Pencil In The Lower Left Margin; The 4th Of 10 Estampes In An Album Of Serigraphs In Color By Jean Bruller, Paris (His Signature "B" Is Featured In The Lower Left).
Condition: In Good Condition With Strong Bold Colors.
Illustrated in: Saphire E4.
Price: $6,500

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Title: Tête De Femme Avec Composition (Head Of A Woman With Composition) (1954)
Medium: Original Color Screenprint
Image Size: 16" X 12 ¼" (40.64cm X 31.12cm)
Sheet Size: 21 7/8" X 15" (55.58cm X 38.1cm)
Framed Size: 38 1/8" X 31 ¼" (96.85cm X 79.38cm)
Signature: Hand Signed In Ink By Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) In The Lower Right Margin. Also Signed In The Screen With The Artist's Initials, 'F.L.' In The Lower Right.
Edition: Numbered 190/200 In Pencil In The Lower Left Margin; The 3rd Of 10 Estampes In An Album Of Serigraphs In Color By Jean Bruller, Paris.
Condition: In Good Condition With Strong Bold Colors.
Illustrated in: Saphire E21.
Price: $5,500

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Title: La Racine Gris (1930)
Medium: Color Lithograph with hand applied Color Stencil and Pochoir
Image Size: 19 ¼" x 25 ¼" (49 x 64 cm)
Sheet Size: 25" x 35 ½" (63.5 x 90.2 cm)
Framed Size: 37 ½" x 42 ¾" (95.3 x 108.6 cm)
Edition: numbered 121/250, lower left
Signed in pencil: F. Leger, lower right
Illustrated in: Saphire E21.
Price: $6,500

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Title: Le Compotier (1952)
Medium: Color aquatint and etching
Size: 17 1/4" x 22 1/2" (437 x 571 mm)
Framed Size: 40 1/8" x 36" (101.9 x 91.4 cm)
Edition: numbered 14/300
Signed in pencil: Lower right
Illustrated in: Saphire E 16.
Price: $6,500

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Title: Paysage 48 (1948)
Medium: Original Color Lithograph on Arches Paper with a Script Watermark
Image Size: 16 ¾" x 14" (42.6 x 35.6 cm)
Sheet Size: 24 ¾" x 19 3/8" (62.9 x 49.2 cm)
Framed Size: 39" x 35 ¼" (99.1 x 89.5 cm)
Edition: numbered 10/75, lower left
Signed in pencil: F. Leger, lower right
Illustrated in: Saphire E23.
Price: $6,500

Leger, Fernand (1881-1955)

French painter and designer. From c.1909 he participated in the Cubist movement. He is generally considered one of its major masters but his curvilinear and tubular forms (he was for a time called a 'tubist') contrasted with the fragmented forms preferred by Picasso and Braque. The First World War, during which he was gassed whilst serving as a stretcher-bearer, had a profound effect on Leger. His contact with men of different social classes and different walks of life came as a revelation: 'I was abruptly thrust into a reality which was both blinding and new,' he said. Henceforward he made it his ambition to create an art which should be accessible to all ranks of modem society.

In 1920 he met Le Corbusier and Ozenfant and in the early 1920s he was associated with their Purist movement. His paintings were static, with the precise and polished facture of machinery, and he had a fondness for including representations of mechanical parts.During the late 1920s and 1930s he also painted single objects isolated in space and sometimes blown up to gigantic size, In the inter-war years he expanded his range beyond easel painting, with murals and designs for the theatre and cinema. He was also busy as a teacher, notably at his own school, the Academie de I'Art Contemporain, and he traveled widely, making three visits to the USA in the 1930s. The connections he had made there stood him in good stead when he lived in America. During the Second World War he lived in the USA, teaching at Yale University, and at Mills College, California. Acrobats and cyclists were favorite subjects in his paintings of this time. From his return to France in 1945 his painting reflected more prominentlyhis political interest in the working classes. But its static, monumental style remained, with flat, unmodulated colours, heavy black contours, and a continuing concern with the contrast between cylindrical and rectilinear forms. in his later career Leger worked much on large decorative commissions, notably the windows and tapestries for the church at Audincourt (1951). Many honours came to him late in life, and a museum dedicated to him opened at Biot in France in 1957. In the catalogue of the exhibition Leger and Purist Paris' (Tate Gallery, London, 1970), John Golding wrote of Leger: 'No other major twentieth-century artist was to react to, and to reflect, such a wide range of artistic currents and movements . . . And yet he was to remain supremely independent as an artistic personality. Never at any moment in his career could he be described as a follower ... But his originality lay basically in his ability to adapt the ideas and to a certain extent even the visual discoveries of others to his own ends.' He saw the poetic value that lies in the clear delineation of everyday objects, the in trinsic beauty of modem machinery and the things which are mass-produced by machinery, and he favoured proletarian subjects, depicting them with the same clarity and precision as the themes taken from machine culture.