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Fernand Léger

Les Trois figures

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November 19, 12:49 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

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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