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Les Constructeurs

Creator: Fernand Leger
Offered by: Modern Masters Tapestries

Description
Material: Handwoven wool tapestry from Atelier Pinton workshop
Dimensions : 171 x 242 cm – 67 x 95 in.
Date: 1970
Signature: Signed and numbered 2/6
Condition Report: Excellent

Fernand Léger “Les constructeurs” Tapestry
Fernand Léger “Les constructeurs” (The builders) tapestry is a stunning piece. Léger’s series of gouaches and oils on the theme of construction workers is one of his best-known projects of the 1940s and early 1950s, culminating in the large-scale Les Constructeurs (1951) in the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

As the artist famously stated, it was the sight of men swaying on the steel girders of a construction site that inspired the series: “I saw man like a flea; he seemed still lost in his inventions with the sky above him. I wanted to render that; the contrast between man and his inventions, between the worker and all that metal architecture, that hardness, that ironwork, those bolts and rivets” (Fernand Léger quoted in Werner Schmalenbach, Fernand Léger, New York, 1976, p. 158).

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Handwoven wool tapestry.
Condition:	Good.
Creation Date:	1970
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Mid Century
Incollect Reference #:	749026

Dimensions

W.	67.32 in;	H.	95.28 in;
W.	171 cm;	H.	242 cm;

Message from Seller:

At Modern Masters Tapestries, we offer a curated collection of exceptional 20th-century tapestries and artistic rugs, featuring works by renowned artists like Sonia Delaunay and Alexander Calder. Founded by art connoisseur Didier Marien as a branch of the esteemed Boccara Gallery, our passion for textile art spans over 35 years. For more information, contact us at 228.343.4620 or info@mmtapestries.com.