Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Fernand Léger
Objets contrastés sur fond bleu
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November 19, 11:13 PM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Objets contrastés sur fond bleu
signed F.Leger and dated 32 (lower right); signed F.Leger., titled and dated 32 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23 ½ by 36 ⅛ in.
59.7 by 91.8 cm.
Executed in 1932.
Stella and Alexander Margulies, London (acquired directly from the artist by 1953)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Eastbourne, The Towner Art Gallery; Southampton Art Gallery; Cardiff, The National Museum of Wales; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum; Kingston-Upon-Hull, Ferens Art Gallery; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, A Selection from the Margulies Collection: New Paintings from Paris, 1960-61, no. 48, illustrated in color on the cover
London, The Tate Gallery, Private Views: Works of the Collections of 20 Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1963, no. 108
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger. Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1932-1937, vol. I, Paris, 1996, no. 801, p. 25, illustrated in color; pp. 24 and 293
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