Le Cirque - SOLD

Le Cirque is an original modern rare book engraved by Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881 - Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955) in 1950.

Published by Tériade Éditions, Paris.

Original edition.

300 numbered and signed copies.

Format: in folio.

111 pages with 33 full page lithographs in color and 42 black and white.   

Mint conditions.

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Le Cirque is an original modern rare book engraved by Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881 - Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955) in 1950. Léger had been painting in a style that mixed Impressionism with Fauvism. Under the influence of his new environment, he abandoned those styles for a more Cubist approach. At the time, Picasso and Braque’s Cubist style entailed fracturing forms into multiple intersecting planes; Léger adapted their techniques to break down forms into tubular shapes. In 1909 he produced The Seamstress, in which he reduced his colours to a combination of blue-gray and buff and rendered the human body as a mass of slabs and cylinders that resembled a robot. His style was aptly nicknamed “tubism.”

The work has been published by Tériade Éditions, Paris. Tériade Éditionswas founded by Efstratis Eleftheriades, known at Tériade, in 1943 to undertake, in his words, the “rebirth of the illustrated art book.” Since 1943 Tériade has published twenty-six livres d’artistes and has worked with major modern artists such as Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Fernand Leger, Alberto Giacometti, and many others. In addition to working with great artists Tériade hired renowned editors, such as Albert Skira, Christian Zervos, and Maurice Reynal, all of whom made noteworthy contributions to the book arts and in some cases to art criticism. The publisher founded the art magazine Verve in 1937.