ID 1059533
Lot 731 | FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
Portrait du fils Bignou
signed and dated 'F. LÉGER 33' (lower right); signed and dated again 'F. LÉGER 33' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 3⁄8 x 25 ¾ in. (92.3 x 65.3 cm.)
Painted in 1933
Provenance
Etienne Bignou, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Galerie Bignou, Paris.
Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva.
Galerie Clos de Sierne, Geneva.
Anon. sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 7 June 1974, lot 135.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 19 May 1983, lot 340.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
R. Cogniat, "Visites d'atelier. Chez Fernand Léger" in Beaux-Arts, 21 April 1933 (illustrated).
R. Cogniat, "Le Cubisme méthodique: Léger et L'Effort Moderne" in L'Amour de l'Art, 1933, vol. 14-15, p. 234 (illustrated, fig. 296; dated 1932).
C. Derouet, "Léger 1934: La tentation du réalisme" in Fernand Léger, La poésie de l'objet 1928-1934, exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1981, p. 13 (illustrated; titled Portrait de M.B.).
P. Descargues, Fernand Léger, Paris, 1995, p. 141 (illustrated in color, p. 140).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné, 1932-1937, Paris, 1996, vol. V, p. 72, no. 831 (illustrated in color, p. 73).
Artist: | Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Modern art |
Genre: | Portrait |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Modern art |
Genre: | Portrait |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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