Lot 34
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FERNAND LÉGER | Etude pour Les Plongeurs

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 EUR
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Description

  • Fernand Léger
  • Etude pour Les Plongeurs
  • monogramed F.L., titled Etude pour Les Plongeurs, inscribed SF and dated 41 (lower right)
  • gouache, pencil and India ink on paper
  • 45,6 x 35,6 cm; 18 x 14 in.
  • Executed in 1941.

Provenance

Buccholz Gallery, New York
Jane Wade Ltd, New York
George Irwin, Quincy, Illinois
Private collection, Dallas
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Sale: Tajan, Paris, May 16, 2013, lot 239
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Champaign, University of Illinois, Krannert Art museum, Selection from the collection of George M. Irwin, 1980

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount with tape in two places along the upper edge. There are pinholes at the upper left and right corner, to the centre of the upper edge and to the upper part of the right and left edges. There are a few flattened creases most predominately to the upper left quadrant and to the centre of the lower edge. The sheet is slightly light stained. This work is in overall very good condition.
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