ID 1334644
Lot 434 | FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Estimate value
$ 450 000 – 650 000
Composition au veston
signed and dated 'F. LEGER-34' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'Composition au veston 1934 F. LEGER' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 25 ¾ in. (50.4 x 65.5 cm.)
Painted in 1934
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris (by 1939).
Galerie Michel Couturier et Cie., Paris.
Galerie Paul Haim, Paris.
The Waddington Galleries, London.
Saidenberg Gallery, Inc., New York (by 1974).
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above, 1998); sale, Christie’s, New York, 13 November 2015, lot 1359.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1938-1943, Paris, 1996, vol. V, p. 98, no. 845 (illustrated).
Exhibited
The London Gallery, Ltd., Exhibition of Pictures by Léger, October-November 1937, no. 29.
Kunsthalle Bern, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger, Borès, Beaudin, Vinès, May-June 1939, p. 17, no. 91.
Lausanne, Galerie Bonnier, Fernand Léger, May-June 1961, p. 3, no. 2.
| Artist: | Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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