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Property from an Important Private East Coast Collection

Fernand Léger

Paysage d'hiver

Auction Closed

June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private East Coast Collection

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


Paysage d'hiver

signed F. Leger and dated 53 (lower right); signed F. Leger., dated 53, titled and inscribed E. Definitif (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

64.8 by 92 cm. 25½ by 36¼ in.

Framed: 88.5 by 116 cm. 34⅞ by 45⅝ in.

Executed in 1953. 

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1969)

James Goodman Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1986)

Hokin Gallery, Inc., Palm Beach

Acquired from the above on 18 August 1986 by the present owner 

Pierre Francastel, Histoire de la peinture française: du Classicisme au Cubisme, vol. II, Paris, 1955, p. 150, illustrated 

Georges Bauquier, Irus Hansma and Claude Lefebvre du Preÿ, Fernand Léger, catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1952-1953, Paris, 2013, no. 1580, p. 189, illustrated in colour

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Le Paysage dans l’œuvre de Léger, 1954, no. 21

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1956, no. 152, illustrated

Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1964, no. 94, illustrated

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, F. Léger, 1969, no. 61, illustrated in colour

Milan, Galleria Il Milione, Fernand Léger, Olii, guazzi, lavis, designi, 1969-70, no. 13, illustrated

Genoa, Palazzo dell'Accademia e Palazzo Reale, Immagine per la città, 1972, n.n., illustrated

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Paysage après l’Impressionnisme, 1975, no. 41, illustrated in colour

Hovikodden, Henie-Onstand Kunstsenter, Landskapkunst-Kunstlandskap, 1978, no. 34

Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1980-81, no. 131, illustrated in colour

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Fernand Léger 1881-1981, 1981, no. 49, illustrated in colour

Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Fernand Léger, 1983, no. 41, illustrated in colour

Paris, Grand Palais & New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Fernand Léger, 1984-85, no. 46, illustrated 

Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Fernand Léger, 1985, n.n., illustrated