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Once listed, I believe this will be the only such New Year's Card with Nadia Léger's signature or signed inscription. On the front is a reproduction of one of the four versions of Fernand Léger's painting, Les Trois Musiciens.'Les Trois musiciens personifies the Jazz Age and the joie de vivre of Paris in the years leading up to the war. One version of the painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Léger took his inspiration here from the performers at the bals musettes, where working-class Parisians would come on any given Saturday and Sunday afternoon to dance to the melody of an accordionist, the harmony of a horn player and the rhythmic thump of a bass player. Sometimes accompanied by a chanteuse like Edith Piaf, their music resonated in the dance halls of hard-scrabble neighborhoods throughout the city and became anthems of the urban life.' Besides being a fine artist in her own right, Nadia Léger ran the Académie Moderne with Georges Bauquier, whom she married after Léger's death in 1955. She was involved in creating many of the works attributed to Léger after the war. She collaborated with architect Andreï Svetchine to build the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes near Antibes in 1960, which was donated to the French state in 1967. The French Minister of Culture, André Malraux, opened the Musée national Fernand Léger on 4 February 1969. She also converted Léger's farm at Lisores in Normandy into a museum, the Ferme-Musée Fernand Léger, completed in 1970.' I have provided photographs of all four sides of this large 'card'. It is in good shape, no tears, one crease at the top inside corner of the signed page, and one at the top left corner of the illustration. There is also a small stain off the top edge of the signed page, and as you can see there is some spotting/foxing on all four sides, though the light of the camera accentuates it iin a way the naked eyes does not. The blank rear side is by far the most foxed. Seller Inventory # 004919
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Title: Nadia Léger Signed New Year's Card with with...
Publisher: Musee National Fernand Léger, Biot, Biot, France
Binding: No Binding
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
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