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Edy LEGRAND (Bordeaux 1892 – Bonnieux 1970)
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Edy LEGRAND (Bordeaux 1892 – Bonnieux 1970)
Composition
Orig…
See original version (French)
Estimate €4,000 - €6,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Edy LEGRAND (Bordeaux 1892 – Bonnieux 1970)
Composition
Original oil on canvas
129.05 × 194 cm
Signed lower right: Edy Legrand
Bears the handwritten inscription ‘Edy Legrand’ on the back of the stretcher
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Oil on canvas, signed lower right (50¾ × 76⅜ in.)
Born to a French mother and a Russian Jewish father, Édouard Warschawsky, known as Edy Legrand, initially pursued a career as a graphic designer and illustrator — the album *Macao et Cosmage* in 1919, followed by the Chicago World’s Fair in 1932 alongside Picasso, Matisse and Derain. His encounter with Morocco in 1933, whilst staying with Jacques Majorelle, transformed his painting: the North African light steered him away from Orientalist meticulousness towards a thicker brushstroke, where colour took precedence over outline. Having settled in the 1960s in a former quarry in the Luberon, in Bonnieux, in search of light reminiscent of the Maghreb, he took this evolution further, towards a lyrical abstraction, a sensory memory of the landscapes he had travelled through.
Provenance:
Private collection
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