Fernand Léger
Esquisse pour une cantine dans un Camp d'Aviation
Circa 1939
Gouache over pencil drawing on chamois-coloured drawing paper firmly mounted on artists' board 13.3 x 26 cm (18/19 x 31.8 cm), artists' board 19.5 x 33 cm Framed under glass. Illegibly titled underneath the composition and signed lower right 'Esquisse pour une cantine dans un camp d'aviation F Leger'. - The ink inscription slightly faded. The pencil marks exceeding the paper margin and card are indicative of artist's mounting.
With mainly yellows and blues as a colour orientation and details accentuated in orange, red and green, one associates summery mediterranean emotions. The design is mostly abstract but reminiscent of cloud formations as well as vegetal shapes from the field of marine biology.
The sketch for an airport canteen on offer here is directly related to the painting "Peinture Imaginaire" from 1939 and anticipates it in certain details (cf. Bauquier/Maillard 1062).
Certificate
With a photo-certificate by Irus Hansma, Paris, dated 11 February 2002.