
Property from a Private Collection, New York
Portrait de Paul Éluard
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November 19, 11:13 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection, New York
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Portrait de Paul Éluard
signed twice F. Leger, dated 47 and inscribed A Alice amigo (lower right); signed F. Leger, titled and dated 47 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 ⅝ by 19 ⅞ in.
65.1 by 50.5 cm.
Executed in 1947.
Alice Ahrweiler, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Galerie 65, Cannes
Palais Galliera, Paris, 12 June 1964, lot 84
Acquired at the above sale by the wife of the present owner
Paris, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Fernand Léger, Exposition rétrospective 1905-1949, 1949, no. 82
London, Tate Gallery, Fernand Léger, 1950, no. 41
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Fernand Léger, 1956, no. 123, pp. 316-17, illustrated
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Léger Wegbereider, 1956-57, no. 63
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1957, no. 107
Frank Elgar, Léger. Peintures, 1911-1948, Paris, 1948, pl. XII, illustrated
Jean-Luc Guillevic, “Sur des Figures de Fernand Léger,” Cahiers d’art, Paris, 1949, p. 84, fig. IV, illustrated
Frank Elgar, “Picasso-Léger, deux hommes, deux mondes,” Les Amis de l’art, Paris, 1954, pl. 16, illustrated
"Hommage à Fernand Léger," Les Lettres françaises, Paris, 1955, no. 582, p. 12, illustrated
Pierre Descargues, Fernand Léger, Prague, 1960, no. 46
Eva Petrová, Fernand Léger, Prague, 1966, p. 129, illustrated
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1944-1948, Paris, 2000, no. 1251, p. 159, illustrated in color
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