Lot 107
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Fernand Léger
Composition, Ca. 1920.
India ink drawing and white paint
Post auction sale: € 20,000 / $ 23,200
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Composition. Ca. 1920.
India ink drawing and white paint.
Monogrammed in the lower right. On Michallet laid paper (with watermark). Ca. 23.8 x 31.1 cm (9.3 x 12.2 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• Exact, early drawing from the "période mécanique" (1918–1920).
• Homage to technology, the big city, and architecture: Léger's visual language of the period represents the experience of modern man at the beginning of the 20th century.
• A comparable drawing from this creative period is in the collection of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; other drawings by the artist are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Tate Gallery, London.
With confirmation from the Comité Léger, Paris, on October 15, 2025. The work will be included in the online catalog raisonné of works on paper.
PROVENANCE: Mireille Rougeot Collection, Paris (handwritten inscription on the reverse).
Private collection, Germany.
In family ownership since then.
EXHIBITION: Fernand Léger. Dessins, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, Dec. 1970.
F. Léger. Dessins, Musée Louisiana & Lyngby, Humlebaek, cat. no. 31 (illustrated).
LITERATURE: Lempertz, Cologne, 576th auction, May 17, 1980, lot 391 (illustrated on plate 68).
1881 - 1955
Composition. Ca. 1920.
India ink drawing and white paint.
Monogrammed in the lower right. On Michallet laid paper (with watermark). Ca. 23.8 x 31.1 cm (9.3 x 12.2 in), size of sheet.
[AR].
• Exact, early drawing from the "période mécanique" (1918–1920).
• Homage to technology, the big city, and architecture: Léger's visual language of the period represents the experience of modern man at the beginning of the 20th century.
• A comparable drawing from this creative period is in the collection of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main; other drawings by the artist are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Tate Gallery, London.
With confirmation from the Comité Léger, Paris, on October 15, 2025. The work will be included in the online catalog raisonné of works on paper.
PROVENANCE: Mireille Rougeot Collection, Paris (handwritten inscription on the reverse).
Private collection, Germany.
In family ownership since then.
EXHIBITION: Fernand Léger. Dessins, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, Dec. 1970.
F. Léger. Dessins, Musée Louisiana & Lyngby, Humlebaek, cat. no. 31 (illustrated).
LITERATURE: Lempertz, Cologne, 576th auction, May 17, 1980, lot 391 (illustrated on plate 68).
107
Fernand Léger
Composition, Ca. 1920.
India ink drawing and white paint
Post auction sale: € 20,000 / $ 23,200
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Fernand Léger "Composition"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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