Quatre papillons et un insecte
1953
Fernand Léger's 'Quatre papillons et un insecte' is a 1953 oil on canvas featuring geometric abstraction of insects and butterflies. The work combines Léger's signature bold outlines and primary colors with his interest in natural forms translated into modern visual language.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern Day Auction
November 17, 2021
Estimate: $700,000 to $1,000,000
Lot 108
Spotted works by Fernand Léger
Artists in conversation
Stuart Davis
American · b. 1892
Davis similarly translated natural and everyday subjects into bold geometric abstraction using vivid primary colors and thick outlines, creating a distinctly modern visual language that closely parallels Léger's approach in this butterfly composition.
Roger de la Fresnaye
French · b. 1885
De la Fresnaye applied Cubist geometric fragmentation to recognizable subjects with a similarly playful and colorful sensibility, sharing Léger's method of rendering organic forms through bold simplified shapes and clean contour lines.
Sonia Delaunay
French · b. 1885
Delaunay's work features the same vibrant primary color palette and geometric abstraction of natural and decorative forms, with a joyful playfulness that strongly echoes the mood and visual vocabulary Léger employed in this insect and butterfly painting.
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