FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)

Lot 314
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Lot 314 | FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
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FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)

Portrait du fils Bignou

signed and dated 'F. LÉGER 33' (lower right); signed and dated 'F. LÉGER 33' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

36 3⁄8 x 25 5⁄8 in. (92.3 x 65 cm.)

Painted in 1933





Provenance

Étienne Bignou, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist.

Galerie Bignou, Paris.

Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva.

Galerie Clos de Sierne, Geneva.

Anonymous sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 7 June 1974, lot 135.

Anonymous 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 p. 140).

G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, 1932-1937, Paris, 1996, no. 831, p. 72 (illustrated p. 73).



Exhibited

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Fernand Leger: la poesie de l'object, May - June 1981, p. 13 (illustrated).
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