FERNAND LÉGER | LE DÉJEUNER
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May 18, 04:44 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FERNAND LÉGER
(1881 - 1955)
LE DÉJEUNER
Signed with the initials F.L and indistinctly dated 1 (upper left)
Watercolor, brush and ink and pencil on paper
10¼ by 14⅛ in. (26 by 36 cm)
Framed: 19 by 23 in. (48.2 by 58.4 cm)
Executed in Spring 1921.
Galerie l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
The Zwemmer Gallery, London (acquired by 1936 and until circa 1960)
J.P.L. Fine Arts, London (acquired by 1978)
Sale: Sotheby's, London, April 1, 1987, lot 351
Private Collection, Switzerland (and sold: Christie's, New York, May 15 1997, lot 392)
Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, November 11, 2019, lot 31A)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
London, Lefevre Gallery & traveling, Abstract & Concrete, 1936, no. 19 (probably)
London, J.P.L. Fine Arts, Fernand Léger: Drawings and Gouaches 1910-1953, 1978, no. 5 (titled Femme attablée)
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Abstraction 1910-40, 1980, no. 89, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Femme attablée)
Eileen Holding, "London Shows," in Axis, Spring 1936, no. 5, mentioned p. 27, illustrated p. 26
Jean Cassou & Jean Leymarie, Fernand Léger, Dessins et gouaches, nouvelle édition, 2012, no. 3-394, http://www.legerdessinsetgouaches.com (accessed on April 24, 2020)