Modern Day Auction

Modern Day Auction

Property from the Collection of Harry P. Kamen

Fernand Léger

Les Troncs d'arbres et les deux oiseaux sur fond orange

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Harry P. Kamen

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


Les Troncs d'arbres et les deux oiseaux sur fond orange

signed F. Leger and dated 51 (lower right); signed F. Leger, dated 51 and titled les troncs d'arbres et les 2 oiseaux (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

36 ¼ by 25 ⅝ in.

92.1 by 65.1 cm.

Executed in 1951. 

Estate of the artist
Private Collection, Paris
Galerie Ariel, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland
Solomon & Co. Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1949-1951, vol. VIII, Paris 1996, no. 1414, pp. 170-71, illustrated in color 

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