Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955) (after) La Fleur qui marche (The Walking Flower), after the original model designed around [1952]. Sculpture. Polychrome glazed ceramic. The quadrangular base in exotic wood veneer. Post mortem edition. Monogrammed F. L. on the inside of the left [foot]. Sculpture alone: 62.5 x 47.5 x 26 cm With base: 67 x 47.5 x 39 cm Provenance : - Simone Bauquier Collection; Callian (château). - Mme X., inherited from the previous owner. Public collections and related works : - Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot - A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, with color variations, is held in the collections of this institution under inventory number MNFL 99029. - AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, USA - A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, with base variation, is held in the collections of this institution under inventory number K1969.20. Related exhibitions and works - Fernand Léger chez Louis Carré - Sculptures polychromes en céramique - Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, January 16 - February 28, 1953. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche exhibited at this event (N° 23). - Fernand Léger, la céramique - Biot, Musée national Fernand Léger, March 24 - July 2, 2000. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, with color variations, exhibited at this event (N° 68). Related pictorial work: Our ceramic to be compared with the oils on canvas Nature morte au vase bleu (1937) and La Fleur polychrome (1937), referenced under N° 928 and 929 in Fernand Léger's Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint (V). Bibliography : - Art et Industrie - N° 24 of 1952. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche is reproduced on p. 44. - André Verdet - Fernand Léger: Le dynamisme pictural - Éditions P. Cailler, Geneva, 1955. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche reproduced under catalog no. 70. - Larisa Alekseevna Zadova - Fernand Léger, mosaïque, vitrail, céramique, tapisserie - Editions Izdatel'stvo Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1970. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, with color variations, reproduced under numbers 1 and 2 (large format) in the ceramics catalog. - Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (dir.) - Homage to Fernand Léger - Special issue of XXe siècle magazine, 1971. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, with color variations, reproduced on p. 117. - Peter de Francia - Fernand Léger - Yale University Press, New Haven, 1983. A color-variant ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, reproduced on p. 236 as no. 57. - Serge Fauchereau - Fernand Léger: A Painter in the City - Éditions Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1994. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, with color variations, reproduced on p. 116 under number 129. - Fernand Léger, la céramique - Catalogue published for the exhibition at the Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot (March 24-July 2, 2000), Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 2000. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, with color variations, referenced under number 68 in the catalog, reproduced on p. 35 and described on p. 60. - Yvonne Brunhammer - Fernand Léger, l'œuvre monumental - Éditions 5 Continents, Milan, 2005. A ceramic proof of La Fleur qui marche, with color variations, catalog number 139, reproduced on p. 134.