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Fernand Léger

La racine noire

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April 20, 12:08 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955

La racine noire


signed with the initials F.L. (lower right)

gouache, ink and pencil on paper

38 x 48,7 cm; 15 x 191/8 in.

Executed in 1948.

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Provenant d'une Collection Particulière

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955

La racine noire


signé des initiales F.L. (en bas à droite)

gouache, encre et crayon sur papier

38 x 48,7 cm; 15 x 191/8 in.

Exécuté en 1948.

Nadia Léger, France (the artist's wife)

Galerie Louis Leiris, Paris (n° 015363, photo n° 30723) 

Alberto Galaverni (acquired from the above in the 1970s)

Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in the 1990s)

Sotheby's London, 4 February, 2016, lot 124 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Salzburg, Rupertinum Museum Moderner Kunst, Fernand Léger, L'Esprit Moderne, 2002, no. XVI, illustrated in the catalogue np.

Lawrence Saphire, Fernand Léger, The Complete Graphic Work, New York, 1978, p. 258, illustrated

© ADAGP, Paris, 2023.