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*SUNFLOWER SUNFLOWER COMPOSITION, 1953 Gouache and India ink on paper Monogrammed twice and dated lower right 64.8 x 49.8 cm - 25.5 x 19.6 in. Monogrammed twice and dated lower right, Gouache and India ink on paper Provenance: -Galerie Louise Leiris (inv.30263) Exhibitions: - Fernand Leger: works from 1928 to 1955, Centre culturel d'Art Contemporain, Issoire, 1 July-15 September 1988 - Fernand Léger works on paper, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, April-June 1989 - Fernand Léger ceramics, Musée national Fernand Léger Biot, 24 March to 2 July 2000 Bibliography: - Exhibition catalogue, Fernand Leger: works from 1928 to 1955, Centre culturel d'Art Contemporain, Issoire, July 1-September 15, 1988, work listed under number 41 in the book -Catalogue d'exposition, Fernand Léger works on paper, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, April-June 1989, work listed and illustrated under number 107 on pages 167 and 173 of the book -Catalogue d'exposition, Fernand Léger la céramique, Musée national Fernand Léger Biot, 24 March to 2 July 2000, work listed under number 57 on page 59 of the book Le?ger in his studio in 1951, by Wilhelm Maywald[among the Builders] "I scattered my objects in space and held them together while making them shine in front of the canvas. An easy game of chords and rhythms made of background and surface colours, conductive lines, distances and oppositions. The object is really the "subject" of my easel painting. I took the object, I blew up the table, I put it in the air, without perspective, without support." (Extract from the Fernand Léger Exhibition Catalogue, Retrospective October 1971 - January 1972)