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Property from a Private Collection, Philadelphia

After Fernand Léger

Les Femmes au perroquet sur fond rouge

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Philadelphia

After Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


Les Femmes au perroquet sur fond rouge

inscribed with artist's signature, numbered VI/VIII and stamped with the foundry mark Fonderia Tesconi Petrasanta 

painted bronze

31 by 47 in.

78.7 by 119 cm.

Conceived circa 1951; this example executed as number 6 from an edition of 8.

Private Collection, New York
Thence by descent to the present owner
Dominique Haim Chanin, ed., Léger selon Léger: Mosaïques et céramiques monumentales, Paris, 1997, p. 8, illustration of the ceramic version
Exh. Cat., Biot, Musée National Fernand Léger, Reconnaître, Fernand Légerla céramique, 2000, no. 34, p. 56, illustration of another example 
Yvonne Brunhammer, Fernand Léger, The Monumental Art, Milan, 2005, no. 166, p. 159, illustration of a larger version