Property from an Important Private Collection, Chicago
Fernand Léger
Tête de femme (Figure II)
Auction Closed
May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection, Chicago
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Tête de femme (Figure II)
signed F. LEGER. and dated 48 (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ⅝ by 19 ¾ in.
65.1 by 50.2 cm.
Executed in 1947-48.
Galerie Louis Carré & Cie., Paris
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1949)
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie’s, New York, 14 November 2017, lot 402 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Opening Exhibition, Léger, 1912-1948, 1948, no. 18 (titled Mise au point d'un visage and dated 1948)
Eugène Guillevic, "Sur des figures de Fernand Léger," Cahiers d'art, 24ème année, 1949, p. 82, illustrated (prior to signature and dated 1947)
Douglas Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, p. 148, illustrated; p. 193 (titled Tête and dated 1947)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Fernand Léger, 1998, p. 282, illustrated in situ
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1944-1948, vol. VII, Paris, 2000, no. 1249, p. 156, illustrated
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