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The Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Collection

Fernand Léger

Les Constructeurs au vélo

Auction Closed

November 21, 09:32 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Collection

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


Les Constructeurs au vélo

faintly signed with the initials F.L and dated 50 (lower right)

gouache, brush and ink, paper collage and pencil on joined paper squared for transfer, laid down on board

27 ⅝ by 19 in.

70.2 by 48.3 cm.

Executed in 1950.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Dr. Rosa Cristina Klein, Stuttgart (acquired by 1971 and until at least 1984)

Donald B. Marron, New York (acquired by 1988)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1990)

Marc Blondeau, Paris 

Private Collection, France (acquired from the above)

Christie’s, New York, 14 November 1996, lot 325 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Biot, Musée national Fernand Léger, no. D548

Zurich, Galerie René Ziegler, Fernand Léger, no. 16  

Paris, Grand Palais, Fernand Léger, 1971-72, no. 181, p. 140, illustrated; p. 129

Kunsthalle Cologne, Fernand Léger–Das figurliche Werk, 1978, no. 105

Mechelen, Stedelijk Museum, Fernand Léger, 1979, no. 117

Berlin, Staatlische Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, 1881-1955, 1980-81, no. 255, p. 494, illustrated; p. 615

Kunstverein Hamburg; Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum and Kunsthalle Tübingen, Fernand Léger: Gouachen, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1983-84, no. 100, p. 139, illustrated; p. 159 

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Fernand Léger: The Late Years, 1987-88, no. 96, pl. 71, illustrated in color 



Peter de Francia, Fernand Léger, London, 1983, no. 7.57, p. 169, illustrated; p. 199