Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property of An American Collector
Fernand Léger
Quatre papillons et un insecte
Auction Closed
November 17, 10:26 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of An American Collector
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Quatre papillons et un insecte
signed F. Leger and dated 53 (lower right); signed F. Leger, titled and dated 53 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36¼ by 28¾ in.
92 by 73 cm.
Executed in 1953.
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris
Ader Picard Tajan Paris, 12 December 1979, lot 98
Perls Gallery, New York
Nohra Haime, New York (acquired from the above in 1980)
Private Collection, California
Eykyn Maclean, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Georges Bauquier, Irus Hansma & Claude Lefebvre du Preÿ, Fernand Léger. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. IX, Paris, 2013, no. 1578, p. 186, illustrated in color