Fernand Léger
La preuve que l'homme descend du singe.
Original photograph. A[RGONNE], 23 AVRIL 1916.
Original silver print (158 x 97 mm) on cardboard (318 x 250 mm)
Signed and dated "F Léger A. 23-4+16".
Some folds, silver mirrors
In the Normandy front in Argonne, Leger created 6 works, 4 of which were made with materials he found around him (such as wood trunks and planks). A humorous point of view of a soldier's life on the
war front, "La preuve que l'homme descend du singe" is one two famous works that Leger realised in 1915. He offered this one to his friend, Captain Blanc. To keep a record of these two works, Leger
made many reproductions in 1916: other than this photograph from April, we know of a black drawing that copied this work (Sotheby's, Paris, December 16th 2008, item n°122).
With a metallic tip, Leger scraped some elements of the black and white photograph (for example the trumpet in the top left corner), to give the work some 3-dimension.
References : G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné of the painted work, 1903-1919, n° 99, p. 183 (for the painting).
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