Property from the Collection of Annabelle and Bernard Fishman
Fernand Léger
Esquisse pour ‘Les Belles cyclistes’, 2ᵉ état
Session begins in
May 20, 03:00 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Bid
600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Annabelle and Bernard Fishman
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Esquisse pour ‘Les Belles cyclistes’, 2ᵉ état
signed F. LEGER and dated 44 (lower right); signed F. LEGER., titled and dated 44 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 by 24 in.
50.1 by 61 cm.
Executed in 1944.
Louis Carré, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Norman P. Laskey, New York
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by May 1978 by the present owner
New York, Valentine Gallery, New Paintings, 1945, no. 4
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, F. Léger 1912-1948, 1948, no. 13 (titled Les Belles cyclistes II)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 3rd Exhibition of Paintings by Léger: 30 Years of Léger, 1952, no. 24 (titled Les Belles Cyclistes and with incorrect dimensions)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Léger, Major Themes, 1957, no. 24, n.p., illustrated (titled Women Cyclists and with incorrect dimensions)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 6th Exhibition of Paintings by Léger, Selected from the Years 1918-1954, 1960-61, no. 12, illustrated (titled The Women Cyclists and with incorrect dimensions)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fernand Léger: Five Themes and Variations, 1962, no. 29, p. 44, illustrated
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 2 Generations: Picasso to Pollock, 1964
Georges Bauquier, Irus Hansma and Claude Lefebvre du Preÿ, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1944-1948, vol. VII, Paris, 2000, no. 1178, pp. 48-49, illustrated in color
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