Fernand Léger
artist
French painter
The collaboration
It is André Verdet who introduces Egidio to Léger, in the first half of the 1950s. They meet several times and decide to make a sculpture together, which sees the light only after Léger’s death: in memory of his friend, Egidio translates into glass one of his lithographs, given to him by Léger’s dealer, and the Flower-Sun is born, in glass and silvered metal, at once flower and sun.
“I made – says Egidio – Fernand Léger’s Flower-Sun because it held the flower and the sun at once. I built it in silvered metal as if it were a jewel. For me, a Botanist turned artist, the flower is the symbol of all the wonderful things the Good Lord has let me see.”