Property from the Estate of Miki Benoff
Fernand Léger
Femme dans un jardin
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Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Miki Benoff
Fernand Léger
(1881 - 1955)
Femme dans un jardin
signed F LEGER and dated 22 (lower right); signed F. LEGER, titled and dated again (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
26 by 18 ⅜ in.
66 by 46.7 cm.
Executed in 1922.
Galerie Simon, Paris
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in December 1951 by the present owner
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Early Léger, 1951, no. 28
London, The Tate Gallery, Léger and Purist Paris, 1970-71, no. 35, p. 99 (titled Femme dans le jardin)
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1920-1924, Paris, 1992, no. 328, p. 226; p. 227, illustrated in color
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