FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)

Lot 664
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ID 950061
Lot 664 | FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
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FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)

La fleur noire

signed and dated 'F.LEGER.49' (lower right); signed again, dated and titled 'F.LÉGER.49 La Fleur noire' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (65.1 x 54 cm.)

Painted in 1949





Provenance

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (by 1951).

Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 17 May 1979, lot 311.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.



Literature

G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1949-1951, Paris, 2003, vol. VIII, p. 52, no. 1344 (illustrated in color, p. 53).



Exhibited

New York, Louis Carré Gallery, Selected Paintings From Its Permanent Collections, 1951, no. 10.
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