- 45
Fernand Léger
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Description
- Fernand Léger
- Nature Morte (Le Compas)
- Signed and dated F. LEGER/26 (lower right); titled, signed and dated NATURE MORTE/F. LEGER/26 on the reverse
- Oil on canvas
- 35 1/2 by 25 3/4 in.
- 90 by 65 cm
Provenance
Galerie Simon, Paris
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
G.F. Reber, Lausanne
Galerie Köller, Zurich
Private collection (sold: Sotheby's New York, November 14, 1984, lot 61)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Sale: Christie's New York, April 30, 1996, lot 45
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Exhibited
New York, The Sidney Janis Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Fernand Léger, 1984-85, no. 20A
New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Fernand Léger, 2005, no. 13
Literature
George Waldemar, Fernand Léger, L'Amour de L'Art, Paris, août 1926, illustrated p. 263
George Waldemar, Fernand Léger, Paris, 1929, illustrated p. 19
George Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, vol. III, no. 459, illustrated p. 117