FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)

Lot 49
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Lot 49 | FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
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FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
Composition au damier (Composition jaune et noir)
signed and dated 'F. LÉGER.29' (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated 'composition jaune et noir F. LÉGER 29' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
51 x 38 ¼ in. (129.7 x 97.2 cm.)
Painted in 1929.




Provenance

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, by 1947 and until at least 1957.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above in 1964, and by descent; sale, Christie's London, 8 December 1999, lot 53, where acquired for the present collection.



Literature

E. Tériade, 'Documentaire sur la Jeune Peinture II de l'Avénement Classique du Cubisme' in Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1929, no. 10 (illustrated fig. 8, p. 455, at an unfinished state).
H. Heilmaier, 'U Fernanda Légera' in Musaion, Prague, no. 10, January 1930 (illustrated p. 225).
I. Ehrenbourg & H. Heilmaier, 'Exposition Fernand Léger au Kunsthaus de Zurich' in Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1933, nos. 3-4 (illustrated at an unfinished state).
C. Wilk, Marcel Breuer, Furniture and Interiors, New York, 1981, p. 180 (illustrated in situ fig. 192).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1929-1931, Paris, 1995, no. 632, p. 54 (illustrated p. 55).



Exhibited

Bern, Kunsthalle, Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi, May 1947, no. 57; this exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger, July - August 1947, no. 63, p. 8 (illustrated).
Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Retrospektiv Utställning, Fernand Léger, May - June 1948, no. 15.
Fribourg, Landesamt für Museen, Fernand Léger, 1949, no. 14.
Bern, Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, April - May 1952, no. 53.
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Fernand Léger, Peintures, May - June 1953, no. 7.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, May - June 1957, no. 58; this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, July - August 1957, no. 75, p. 32.
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