Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955)

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Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955)
Woman with a parrot Indian ink drawing heightened with white gouache, signed with the initials and dated 40 down to the right 70 x 43 cm (Old restorations, tears, restored in the lower left and in the upper middle, slight pitting) Provenance: - Former Vera and Igor Stravinsky Collection - Sold through Robert Craft, executor of Igor Stravinsky's estate - Private collection, Switzerland - Sale by Christie's London, June 28, 1988, N°378 of the catalog - Simon Struder Art, Geneva - Bernard de Sariac Collection, acquired from the above on 28 November 2013 Can we see in this drawing a preparatory study for La femme au perroquet, 1941, oil on canvas, 94 x 66.5 cm reproduced under n°1087 of Fernand Léger, catalog raisonné de l'œuvre peint 1938 - 1943 ? A certificate of inclusion in the Répertoire des œuvres sur papier d'Irus Hansma dated November 5, 2013 will be given to the buyer (with the dimensions 66 x 42 cm). Robert Craft, Igor Stravinsky's friend and executor of his estate, relates in Conversations with Igor Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, Doubleday & Company, inc. Garden City, New York, 1959 that ....Fernand Léger whom I knew throughout the Diaghilev period, during the second war. I remember a French dinner we prepared for him at our house in Hollywood in the early dark days of the war. It ended with French Caporal cigarettes, and Léger was so moved when he saw them that he began to cry. The Léger drawing of a parrot on our living room wall was given to us by him at that time
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