Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Fernand Léger
Nature morte en rouge et bleu
Auction Closed
March 5, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Nature morte en rouge et bleu
signed F. Leger and dated 1946 (lower right); signed F. Leger., titled and dated 46 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
54 by 65 cm. 21¼ by 25⅝ in.
framed: 68.5 by 79.5 cm. 27 by 31¼ in.
Executed in 1946.
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris
Galerie Louis Leiris, Paris
Galerie Artek, Helsinki
Englund Collection, Helsinki
Kent Belenius, Stockholm (acquired from the above in the 1970s)
Private Collection, Stockholm (acquired from the above)
Sotheby's, London, 26 June 2008, lot 347 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Freiburg, Landesamt für Museen, Fernand Léger, 1949, no. 24, pp. 12 and 15, illustrated
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Fernand Léger / André Masson / Woty Werner, 1949, no. 19
Marseille, Galerie Garibaldi, Fernand Léger, huiles, gouaches, dessins, 1950, no. 13
Helsinki, Galerie Artek, 1951
Helsinki, Galerie Artek, Hommage à Léger, 1955, no 12
Helsinki, Galerie Artek, Jubileums Utställning, 1975, no. 10
Ishøj, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Fernand Léger: Man in the New Age, 2005, no. 70, p. 93
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger. Catalogue raisonné 1944-1948, Paris, 2000, no. 1236, pp. 132-33, illustrated in colour