ID 1380901
Lot 13 | FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Estimate value
£ 1 800 000 – 2 500 000
L'Armistice
signed and dated 'F. LEGER 18' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 ¾ x 15 1/8 in. (55.4 x 38 cm.)
Painted in 1918
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, by 1954.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, by 1959, and until at least 1969.
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above on 9 July 1970.
Literature
C. Zervos, Fernand Léger: Oeuvres de 1905 à 1952, Paris, 1952, p. 93 (illustrated p. 39; dated '1918-1919').
A. Verdet, Fernand Léger: Le dynamisme pictural, Geneva, 1955, no. 15 (illustrated; titled 'Le 14 Juillet 1918'; with inverted dimensions).
J. Cassou & J. Leymarie, Fernand Léger: dessins et gouaches, Paris, 1972, pp. 36 & 203 (illustrated fig. T9, p. 36; dated '1919').
G. Néret, F. Léger, London, 1993, p. 63 (illustrated pl. 60).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1903-1919, Paris, 1990, no. 106, p. 195 (illustrated).
C. Green, 'Out of War: Léger's Paintings of the War and the Peace, 1914-1920' in Fernand Léger, 1911-1924, The Rhythm of Modern Life, exh. cat., Wolfsburg, 1994, p. 52 (illustrated fig. 8, p. 53).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné, 1954-1955, Supplement et corrections des volumes précédents, Paris, 2013, no. 106, p. 148 (illustrated p. 149).
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, XX Century Masters, October - November 1954 (illustrated).
(possibly) New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Arrivals from France, October - November 1955.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Léger: Major Themes, January - February 1957, no. 9 (illustrated).
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, X Years of Janis, September - November 1958, no. 36 (illustrated).
Dartmouth College, Carpenter Art Gallery, Art Work from Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection, June - September 1959.
Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Paintings from the Collection of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, June - August 1960, no. 9.
Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Masterpieces from the Collection of Governor Rockefeller, July - August 1962, no. 19 (with incorrect dimensions).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, May - September 1969, p. 133 (illustrated p. 56).
| Artist: | Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| 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 |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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