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Online-Only Auction, 27 August - 7 September 2020

Prints and Multiples

Sold for

ZAR 10 553
Lot 476
  • Fernand Léger; Est elle aimée? (Is she loved)
  • Fernand Léger; Est elle aimée? (Is she loved)
  • Fernand Léger; Est elle aimée? (Is she loved)
  • Fernand Léger; Est elle aimée? (Is she loved)
  • Fernand Léger; Est elle aimée? (Is she loved)
  • Fernand Léger; Est elle aimée? (Is she loved)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 9 000 - 12 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 10 553

About this Item

French 1881-1955
Est elle aimée? (Is she loved)
1949

printed with the artist's initials in the plate

lithograph with pochoir (stencil)
34 by 24cm excluding frame; 66 by 57 by 3cm including frame

Notes

This work illustrates the poem by French poet Arthur Rimbaud, written in 1872, on page 45 of the volume Les Illuminations de Rimbaud (Grosclaude, Lausanne, 1949).

Number 182 from an edition of 395, plus 20 artist's proofs.

A copy of the colophon page signed by the artist and the publisher Louis Grosclaude and numbered 182, and a Leslie Sacks (Les Art International) Certificate of Authentication and invoice dated 12.5.04 accompany the lot.

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