Les Trois figures
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November 19, 12:49 AM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Fernand Léger
(1881 - 1955)
Les Trois figures
signed F LEGER and dated 21 (lower right); signed again, titled Le trois figures and inscribed Iᵉ Etat (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 ¾ by 21 ¼ in.
65.4 by 54 cm.
Executed in 1921.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm (on consignment from the above on 23 October 1948)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in June 1951)
Ragnar and Birgit Sandberg, Stockholm (acquired by 1954 and until at least 1964)
Galerie Bonnier, Geneva (acquired by 1974)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in September 1982)
Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in October 1982)
Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 1996, lot 54 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Germany (acquired at the above sale)
Grisebach, Berlin, 24 November 2000, lot 68
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago and Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris (jointly acquired at the above sale)
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (acquired in full from the above)
Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1920-1924, vol. II, Paris, 1992, no. 287, pp. 150-51, illustrated
Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Fran Cézanne til Picasso, 1954, no. 70
Copenhagen, Charlottenborg, Efterårsudstillingen, 1959, no. 6
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Fernand Léger, 1964, no. 17b
Geneva, Galerie Bonnier, Henri Laurens, pierres, bronzes et terres cuites de 1919 à 1944, Fernand Léger, peintures de 1920 à 1947, 1974, no. 16
New York, Richard Gray Gallery and Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Richard Gray Gallery: 40 Years, 2003
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