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FERNAND LEGER
Argentan 1881 - 1955 Paris, Gif-sur-Yvette (French)
Portrait of George Sand - 1954
Original Watercolor and Pencil Drawing
Title : Portrait of George Sand
Technique : Original Watercolor and Pencil drawing on paper.
Paper Size : 17 X 11 cm / 6.7 X 4.3 inch.
Additional Information : This work is an original darwing by Fernand Lger.
The work was especially prepared for the "Centre National des crivains" (C.N.E. - The National French Center for Writers) by Leger in October 1954 .
The authenticity of this work have been confirmed by the late Nadia Leger (the artist's wife), who confirmed the authenticity in writing on the back side of the work "authentique Fernand Leger, N. Leger".
Provenance : The authenticity have been confirmed by Nadia Leger, the artist's wife (verso)
Binoche-Godeau, Paris, 14th May 1986, No. 96.
George Sand is the pseudonym of the French novelist and feminist Amandine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (July 5, 1804 to June 8, 1876).
Born in Paris to a father of aristocratic lineage (a grandson of Maurice, comte de Saxe and a distant relative of Louis XVI) and a "commoner" mother, Sand was raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother at the family estate, Nohant, in the French region of Berry, a setting later used in many of her novels. In 1822, she married Baron M. Casimir Dudevant (1795-1871), and they had two children, Maurice (1823-1889) and Solange (1828-1899). In 1835, taking the children with her, she left her husband.
Her first novel, Rose et Blanche (1831) was written in collaboration with Jules Sandeau, from whom she allegedly took her pen name, Sand. Her reputation was created the following year with the novel Indiana.
After parting from her husband Sand made less and less a secret of preferring men's clothes to women's, although she continued to dress as a woman for social occasions. This male "disguise" enabled Sand to circulate more freely about Paris, and gave her increased access to venues that might have been denied to a woman of her social standing. This was an exceptional practice for the 19th century, where social codes especially in the upper class were of the highest importance. As a consequence Sand lost many of the privileges attached to being a Baroness.
Condition : Framed. not examined out of the frame.
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