Utilizing a bold color palette of red, black, yellow, and blue-grey, Leger creates an abstract work in which shapes and forms appear to drift in space in Fernand Léger Composition avec formes jaune et rouge (Composition with yellow and red shapes), 1954. The large, red central image hovers vertically above a yellow, horizontal U-shaped form at the bottom of the composition. The two figures complement each other and appear as two obscured tetris pieces fitting together. The blue-grey background is clouded with small, black figures that convey a sense of weightlessness, as if all of the figures in the piece are effortlessly drifting along.

Created in 1954, this color screenprint is hand-signed by Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881 – Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955) in ink in the lower right margin and is numbered from the edition of 200 in pencil in the lower left margin.

Documented and Illustrated In:

1) Saphire, Lawrence, Fernand Leger, The Complete Graphic Work, 1978, listed as E 10 on pg 289 with details on pg 288.

About the Framing:

Fernand Léger Composition avec formes jaune et rouge (Composition with yellow and red shapes), 1954 is Museum-grade conservation framed in a complementary moulding with silk mats and optical grade Plexiglas.