
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
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