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Beverly N. Grossman: A Life in Art, Fashion, and Extraordinary Company
For Beverly Grossman, collecting was never simply about acquiring beautiful things. It was about curiosity, relationships, discovery, and the people and experiences that gave those objects meaning.
Fernand Léger: Building the Modern World
By Raphaël Chatroux, VP, Head of Department, Impressionist & Modern Art In the early 1950s, Fernand Léger began working on Les Constructeurs, one of the most important series of his late career. Reflecting on post-war Europe’s reconstruction, it also focused on the dignity of working-class labor and the scale of modern industry. Among its key preparatory works is the 1950 gouache Les Constructeurs au Vélo, which Freeman’s will proudly offer for sale in its October 27 Impressionist & Modern Art auction in New York. Léger drew inspiration during evening drives to Chevreuse, where he saw construction workers climbing newly erected high-voltage pylons. He recalled being struck by the contrast between the small scale of the workers and the rigid industrial structures around them: “Lost in the rigid, hard, hostile surroundings, the men appeared tiny. I wanted to render this in my paintings, without making any concessions.” Les Constructeurs au Vélo brings together the central elements of the series. The lower half focuses on the workers, while the upper half is dominated by intersecting metal structures. A bicycle in the foreground refers to everyday working-class life and mobility. The work also connects Léger’s early interest in Cubism and mechanical forms with his later focus on labor and collective life. Here, the workers become the central figure within the industrial landscape—the human presence at the heart of modern progress. INQUIRIES: raphaelchatroux@freemansauction.com VIEWING: October 19 – 26 32 East 67th Street, New York, NY TO BE OFFERED OCTOBER 27, NEW YORK Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955) Les Constructeurs au Vélo, 1950 Estimate: $150,000 – 250,000
Rediscovering Alex Katz's 'Swimmer #2"
Painted in 1973, Swimmer #2 belongs to a distinctive moment in Katz’s career, when he was refining the cool, distilled visual language that would come to define his oeuvre. The composition presents a close-cropped profile of his son, Vincent, emerging from rippling water, rendered in luminous planes of color and sweeping, gestural brushwork. The swimmer’s serene expression contrasts with the energetic strokes of water surrounding him, creating a delicate balance between stillness and movement. Throughout the 1970s, Katz returned to the swimmer motif in a small group of related works, including the oils Swimmer and Swimmer #3, both painted in 1973, as well as the prints The Swimmer (1974) and Olympic Swimmer (1976). Across these works, Katz explored repetition and variation, transforming an ordinary moment of leisure into an image of striking graphic clarity and intimacy. Within this small body of work, Swimmer #2 has remained remarkably elusive. While related compositions have entered museums and collections and the imagery has circulated in print, this painting has remained in the same private collection since it was acquired directly from Marlborough Godard, Toronto, in 1976. Its return to public view nearly fifty years later offers a rare opportunity to encounter a work that has - until now - remained largely unseen.
Rain-in-the-Face: A Warrior’s Own Hand
Few figures of the 19th century carried a reputation as powerful as Rain-in-the-Face (c. 1835–1905). A Hunkpapa Lakota warrior and leader, he became one of the most famous Native figures associated with the “Indian Wars.”
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