Before anything else, we wish to pay a heartfelt tribute to the remarkable work carried out by Nadia Léger and Georges Bauquier, her third husband. The catalogues raisonnés produced under their supervision list about 1660 oil paintings.
While achieving a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of works on paper might seem an insurmountable challenge given Fernand Léger’s prolific output, it is not entirely a utopian dream for the oils.