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Property from a Private Collector, London

Fernand Léger

Le vase noir

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collector, London

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955

Le vase noir


signed F. LEGER. and dated 47 (lower right); signed F. LEGER., dated 47 and titled on the reverse

oil on canvas

65 by 50.5cm., 25½ by 19⅞in.

Framed: 90.7 by 76cm., 35⅝ by 29⅞in.

Painted in 1947.

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris
Private Collection, France (acquired from the above. Sold: Christie's, London, 9th November 2000, lot 287)
Waddington Galleries, London
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 2004. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 23rd June 2011, lot 259)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner 
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Fernand Léger, 1912-1939, 1948, no. 18 (titled Une bouteille noire)
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Fernand Léger, Paintings, 1953, no. 18
Tokyo, Galerie Tokoro, Fernand Léger, peintures, gouaches, aquarelles, dessins, livres illustrés, 1986, no. 28, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Issoire, Centre culturel, Salle Jean Hélion, Fernand Léger, Œuvres de 1928 à 1955, 1988, no. 12, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Alexandre Calder Mobiles - Fernand Léger Peintures, 1988, no. 8, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1944-1948, Paris, 2000, no. 1273, illustrated in colour p. 185