Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Liberté j'écris ton... Lot 8

Fernand Léger (1881-1955), Liberté j'écris ton nom, by Paul Eluard , Framed serigraphy. 114 x 30,5 cm Composition in colors by Fernand Léger on the famous poem by his friend Paul Éluard, published clandestinely in Poésie et vérité during the Occupation in 1942. This illustration was made by the painter to pay tribute to the poet who died in 1952. Edition at 200 copies on Auvergne paper, stencil printed by Albert Jon. Second edition by Pierre Seghers Paris, in 1953 (stamped bottom left), same year as the first edition. Realization : Sérigraphie Romefort Marseille. Initially written as a love poem, it quickly became a poem of resistance, Liberté by Paul Eluard (1985-1952) met with an important echo from its publication in 1942. Distributed under the cloak and by plane during the Second World War, it is soon translated into many languages and distributed throughout Europe and beyond. (source: Ministry of Culture, Museum of Art and History of Saint-Denis).