Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Online
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Online
Lot Closed
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
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)
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)