FERNAND LEGER (FRENCH, 1881-1955)

Fernand Leger (French, 1881-1955) Les Trois Soeurs et Enfant Au L'Accordeon printed signature lower right "FL 50-51" mixed media lithograph 44x 32cm Provenance: From the collection of Eric Estorick Esq. Sent directly from the Leger Studio to Eric Estorick (American, 1913-1993), the founder of the Estorick Museum in London, with its collection of Italian Futurism. Estorick collected French paintings and this print was in his own personal collection. Fernand Leger was born in Argentan, Normandy, and was apprenticed to an architect in Caen betwen 1897-1899. He was a painter who linked industry to art. In 1913 he signed a contract with Daniel Kahnweiler who had already discovered Picasso and Braque. During Leger's Cubist period his tubular and curvilinear abstractions contrasted with the rectilinear forms produced by these painters while he became the first of the Cubists to experiment with non-figurative abstraction. Leger is considered to be one of the greats of the 20th century and his work is in museums all over the world. Eric Estorick was political scientist and writer who was a passionate collector. In the year of his death he established a foundation to display his collection and to stage loan exhibtions. The Estorick collection has been hailed as one of the finest early 20th century colelction of Italian art anywhere in the world.

Condition is good. In old original frame with hessian mount.