FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)

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01.03.2022 13:00UTC +01:00
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Los 44 | FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)

Composition

signed and dated 'F LEGER 20' (lower right); signed again, dated and inscribed 'F. LEGER 20 Composition' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25 5⁄8 x 21 1⁄4 in. (65 x 54.1 cm.)

Painted in 1920







Provenance

Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris.

Dr Fritz Nathan & Dr Peter Nathan, Zurich.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1960.





Literature

C. Zervos, ed., 'Fernand Léger au Kunsthaus de Zurich', in Cahiers d'Art, vol. 8, nos. 3-4, Paris, 1933, n.p. (illustrated; dated ‘1919’).

G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné, 1920-1924, Paris, 1992, no. 238, p. 80 (illustrated p. 81).





Exhibited

(Probably) Zurich, Kunsthaus, Fernand Léger, April - May 1933, n.p. (illustrated; dated ‘1919’).

Mechelen, Cultureel Centrum Burgemeester Antoon Spinoy, Fernand Léger, October - December 1979, no. 9, p. 53 (with inverted dimensions).

Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Experiment Sammlung II, Fünf Sammlungen für das Museum, June - August 1984, p. 44.

Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Das gloriose Jahrzehnt, Französische Kunst 1910-1920 aus Winterthurer Besitz, January - April 1991, p. 157 (illustrated p. 156).

Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, Fernand Léger 1911-1924, Le rythme de la vie moderne, May - August 1994, no. 56, p. 245 (illustrated p. 127); this exhibition later travelled to Basel, Kunstmuseum, September - November 1994.

Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Blühendes, Ein Blick auf die Sammlung, August - November 2007.

Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Gipfeltreffen der Moderne: Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur, April - August 2009, no. 97, p. 122 (illustrated p. 132); this exhibition later travelled to Rovereto, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, September 2009 - January 2010; and Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, Ferbruary - May 2010.

Tochigi, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Collection of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, June - July 2010, no. 7-6, pp. 110 & 165 (illustrated p. 111); this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, August - October 2010; Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, October - December 2010; and Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, January - March 2011.

Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, on long term loan, 1960 - 2021.





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