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Property from an Important Private Collection

Fernand Léger

Les Hommes dans la ville

Auction Closed

March 4, 09:10 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Fernard Léger

1881 - 1955


Les Hommes dans la ville

signed F. LEGER and dated 19 (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

65.2 by 54.7 cm. 25⅝ by 21½ in.

Executed in 1919.

Carstairs Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist)

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1951)

Private Collection, New York

Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 1981, lot 242 (consigned by the above)

Helly Nahmad Gallery, London and New York (acquired from the above sale)

Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

Private Collection, Munich (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired as a gift from the above in 1993)

Sotheby’s, New York, 5 November 2015, lot 7 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Early Léger, 1951, no. 9 (titled Man in the City and with inverted dimensions)

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Léger: The Sidney Janis Gallery presents a choice selection of paintings by Fernand Léger in its 3rd exhibition of his work, 1952, no. 6

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 30 Years of Léger, 1952, no. 6

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Architectonic Composition, 1997

Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, 2002-03, n.n., p. 75, illustrated in colour; p. 163

Ishøj, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Fernand Léger, Man in the New Age, 2006, no. 13, p. 14, illustrated in colour 

Nice, Musée National Marc Chagall; Biot, Musée National Fernand Léger and Vallauris, Musée National Pablo Picasso, La guerre et la paix, Picasso, Dis-moi, Blaise. Léger, Chagall, Picasso et Blaise Cendrars, 2009, no. 13, p. 49, illustrated in colour; p. 179

Exh. Cat., New York, Sidney Janis, Fernand Léger: Major Themes, 1957, illustrated in photographs

Georges Bauquier, Férnand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1903-1919, Paris, 1990, no. 164, p. 293, illustrated in colour