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Fernand Léger

Étude pour “Le Remorqueur” (Architecture-Paysage)

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, New York

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955

Étude pour “Le Remorqueur” (Architecture-Paysage)


signed with the initials F.L and dated 23 (lower right)

pencil on paper

9½ by 12½ in.

24 by 31.5 cm.

Executed in 1923.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Perls Galleries, New York
Sidney Janis Galleries, New York
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1984)
Christie’s London, 9 February 2006, lot 615 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Maurice Jardot, Léger Dessins, Paris, 1953, n. 25, n.p., illustrated
Jean Cassou and Jean Leymarie, Fernand Léger Drawings and Gouaches, 1973, no. 109, p. 82, illustrated 
Gille Néret, Léger, Paris, 1990, n. 163, p. 138, illustrated