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Fernand Léger

Composition avec figure

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November 19, 12:49 AM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Fernand Léger

(1881 - 1955)


Composition avec figure

signed F. LÉGER. and dated 30 (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 30 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

36 ⅜ by 29 in.

92.3 by 73.5 cm. 

Executed in 1930.

Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York (acquired circa 1930)

Walter Bareiss, Munich and New York (acquired from the above on 9 January 1953)

Walter Goetz, Paris and London

Alfred Richet, Paris (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 29 November 1994, lot 14 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Hervé Odermatt, Paris

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

New York, Durand Ruel Galleries, Fernand Léger, 1931, no. 10, illustrated

London, Rosenberg & Helft, Ltd., Exhibition of Works by Léger, 1938, no. 18

(possibly) Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Fernand Léger, 1938, no. 45 (titled Composition avec figures)

Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Fernand Léger 55 oeuvres, 1913-1953, 1985, no. 19, p. 26, illustrated in color

Efstratios Teriade, “Léger,” in René Édouard-Joseph, ed., Dictionnaire biographique des artistes contemporains 1910-1930,

Paris, 1931, pp. 352-53, illustrated 

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1929-1931, vol. IV, Paris, 1995, no. 701, pp. 162-63, illustrated