ID 717847
Lot 431 | FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
Estimate value
£ 180 000 – 250 000
Composition sur fond bleu
signed and dated 'F.LÉGER.29' (lower right); signed and inscribed '1er ETAT F. LEGER' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
10 5⁄8 x 18 1⁄8 in. (27 x 46 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Provenance
Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris.
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, by May 1948.
Sune Danielson, Borgholm.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1987, lot 234.
Saidenberg Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
Literature
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1929-1931, Paris, 1995, no. 635, p. 58 (illustrated; incorrectly catalogued as inscribed 'Composition sur fond bleu' (on the reverse)).
Exhibited
Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Retrospektiv Utställning Fernand Léger, May - June 1948, no. 16.
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| Artist: | Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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