Fernand Léger

Le Blessé

Guaranteed PropertyIrrevocable Bids

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Distinguished American Collector

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955

Le Blessé

signed F.LEGER (lower right)

oil on canvas

24 ¼ by 18 ⅜ in. 61.6 by 47 cm.

Executed in 1917.

Galerie Simon, Paris
Meric Callery, New York and Paris
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1944)
Private Collection, Texas (acquired from the above in 1958)
Christie’s, New York, 11 November 1997, lot 150 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Douglas Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, p. 190; p. 70, illustrated

Peter de Francia, Fernand Léger, New Haven and London, 1983, p. 39

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1903-1919, Paris, 1990, no. 101, p. 186; p. 187, illustrated

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Ivory Black in Modern Painting, 1944, no. 8 (dated 1920)

Houston, Rice Museum, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Léger, Our Contemporary, 1978, no. 6, p. 22, illustrated (dated 1918)

Portland Museum of Art, Pursuing a Passion, 1999

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Facets of Cubism, 2005-06

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Romance of Modernism, 2006-07, n.n., p 79, illustrated in color

Cambridge, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, 2015-16 (on loan)