Property from an Important Private East Coast Collection
Fernand Léger
Le chapeau vert et le fer à repasser
Auction Closed
June 28, 12:29 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private East Coast Collection
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Le chapeau vert et le fer à repasser
signed F. Leger and dated 50 (lower right); signed F. Leger., titled and dated 50 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
72.7 by 92 cm. 28⅝ by 36¼ in.
Framed: 92 by 111 cm. 36¼ by 43⅝ in.
Executed in 1950.
Estate of the artist
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Marie Cuttoli, Paris
Perls Galleries, New York
Jeffrey Horvitz Ltd., Los Angeles (acquired by 1978)
Kornfeld und Klipstein Berne, 25 June 1982, lot 180
Private Collection, Switzerland
Sotheby’s London, 26 March 1985, lot 56 (consigned by the above)
Waddington Galleries, London (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above on 28 May 1986 by the present owner
Lyon, Musée de Lyon, Fernand Léger, 1955, no. 75 (titled Le chapeau vert)
Houston, Rice University Institute for the Arts, Léger our Contemporary, 1978, no. 39, p. 56, illustrated
Christian Zervos, Fernand Léger, Œuvres de 1905 à 1952, Paris, 1952, p. 87, illustrated (titled Composition au chapeau vert, as dating from 1951 and illustrated in an earlier state)
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1949-1951, Paris, 1996, no. 1370, p. 91, illustrated in colour
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