Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955) (after) - Lot 29

Fernand LÉGER (1881-1955) (after) Les Danseuses, also known as Les Baigneuses, from the original model designed around [1952], hors commerce proof from the original edition. Bas-relief. Bronze; black-brown patina. Lost-wax casting. Limited post-mortem edition from the Musée national Fernand Léger. Presented on a wooden stand with metal hangers. Signed F. LÉGER and justified H. C. Musée F. LÉGER lower left, stamped C. VALSUANI Cire perdue lower right. Work alone: 37 x 42.5 cm With wooden stand: 58.5 x 70 cm Provenance : - Simone Bauquier Collection; Callian (château). - Mme X., inherited from the previous owner. Public collection and related work : Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot - A bronze proof of Les Baigneuses is held in this institution's collections under inventory number MNFL 03005. Related exhibitions and works : - Fernand Léger - Musée Galliera, Paris, February to March 1969. A bronze proof of La Danseuse exhibited at this event (N° 120). - Fernand Léger - National Museum, Warsaw, February to March 1971; National Museum, Krakow, April 1 to May 1, 1971; National Museum, Poznan, May 15 to June 15, 1971; Museum of Art, Lodz, July 1 to August 1, 1971. A bronze print of Les Danseuses exhibited at this event (N° 242). - Fernand Léger - Obras del Museo nacional Fernand Leger de Biot y coleccion particular - Museo de arte contemporaneo, Seville, November 25 - December 27, 1992. A bronze proof of Les Danseuses exhibited at this event. - Fernand Léger - Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, November 23 to December 27, 1993; Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, January 8 to February 17, 1994; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, February 25 to March 27, 1994. A bronze print of Les Danseuses exhibited at this event (N° 115). - Col-lecció Bassat: Escultures 1911-1989 - Mataró, Nau Gaudí / Consorci Museu d'Art Contemporani, February 9 - October 28, 2018. A bronze print of Les Danseuses exhibited at this event. Related pictorial work: Our bronze to be compared with the oil on canvas Deux femmes sur fond bleu (1952), referenced under N° 1454 and 1455 of Fernand Léger's Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint (IX), a state of which is kept at the MuMa - Musée d'art moderne André Malraux in Le Havre. Bibliography : - Fernand Léger - Obras del Museo nacional Fernand Leger de Biot y coleccion particular - Museo de arte contemporaneo, Séville (25 novembre - 27 décembre 1992), Éditions Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de cultura y medio ambiente, Séville/Saragosse, 1992. A bronze print of Les Danseuses is reproduced on p. 59. - Fernand Léger - Catalogue of the traveling exhibition held at the Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo (November 23 - December 27, 1993); at the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art (January 8 - February 17, 1994); at the Takamatsu City Museum of Art (February 25 - March 27, 1994), Éditions Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1993. A bronze print of Les Danseuses is referenced in the catalog under number 115 and reproduced on p. 183.