FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)

Lot 466
20.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 600 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1334610
Lot 466 | FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 800 000
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Composition aux trois fleurs
signed and dated 'F. LEGER 38' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'Composition aux 3 fleurs F. LEGER 38' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 ½ x 19 5/8 in. (65.7 x 49.8 cm.)
Painted in 1938




Provenance

Galerie Louis Carré et Cie., Paris.
Huguette Blay, Paris.
Origine Beaux Arts Co., Montreal.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, November 1978.



Literature

J. Painlevé, "A propos d'un 'nouveau réalisme' chez Fernand Léger" in Cahiers d'art, 1940, vol. 15, nos. 3-4 (illustrated in situ in the 1940 Galerie Mai exhibition).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1938-1943, Paris, 1998, vol. VI, p. 42, no. 997 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Mai, Fernand Léger: Oeuvres récentes, March 1940.
Edmonton Art Gallery, Selections from a Private Edmonton Collection, June 1981.
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