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FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)

Lot 24
16.05.2024 19:00UTC -05:00
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$ 1 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1209470
Lot 24 | FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Estimate value
$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Léger, F.
Eléments mécaniques
signed with initials and dated 'F.L 22' (lower right)
oil on board laid down on cradled panel
14 7/8 x 10 5/8 in. (37.5 x 26.9 cm.)
Painted in 1922




Provenance

Amédée Ozenfant, Paris and New York (acquired from the artist, circa 1922-1925).
Stanley N. Barbee, Beverly Hills.
Berggruen et Cie., Paris.
Larry Aldrich, New York (acquired from the above, by 1959); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 30 October 1963, lot 17.
Frederick R. and Marcia S. Weisman, Beverly Hills (acquired at the above sale); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 14 October 1965, lot 88.
Perls Galleries, New York.
Harold Diamond, New York (by 1981).
Dr. Samuel and Annette Mandel, New York (acquired from the above, by 1990).
Tony Randall, New York (acquired from the above, 2001); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 November 2007, lot 27.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

H. Kramer, ed., "The Larry Aldrich Collection: A Double Exhibition in the South, at Richmond and Atlanta, Publicly Introduces a Unique Assemblage" in Arts Magazine, vol. 33, no. 4, January 1959, p. 38 (illustrated).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1920-1924, Paris, 1992, vol. II, pp. 246 and 343, no. 339 (illustrated in color, p. 247).



Exhibited

Richmond, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Atlanta Art Association Galleries, Paintings and Sculpture Collected by Mr. and Mrs. Larry Aldrich, January-April 1959, no. 25 (illustrated).
Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles, Municipal Gallery; San Francisco Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; The Arts Club of Chicago; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Albany Institute of History and Art; Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum; Tucson, The Art Center and City Art Museum of St. Louis, The Aldrich Collection, October 1960-April 1962, no. 27 (illustrated; dated 1919).
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, October 1980-January 1981, pp. 172 and 603, no. 35 (illustrated in color, p. 172; with incorrect dimensions).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects: The Figure and the Landscape, 1870’s-1980’s, September-December 1990, pp. 48 and 104 (illustrated in color, p. 48; dated circa 1912-1922).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Poets and Painters, June-September 1997, pp. 25 and 76 (illustrated in color, p. 25; dated circa 1912-1922 and with incorrect dimensions).
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