FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)

Lot 235
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1507944
Lot 235 | FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 800 000
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Racine
signed and dated 'F. LEGER 37' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'RACINE—F LEGER. 37' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 ¼ x 25 5/8 in. (91.9 x 65 cm.)
Painted in 1937




Provenance

Galerie Louis Carré et Cie., Paris.
Private collection, Marseille.
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva.
Anon. sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 8 December 1970, lot 93.
Anon. sale, Palais Galléria, Paris, 27 May 1975, lot 75.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 November 1983, lot 62A.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.



Literature

J. Bazaine, Fernand Léger: Peintures Antérieures à 1940, Paris, 1945, pp. 43 and 50 (illustrated, p. 43; titled Le tronc d'arbre).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1932-1937, Paris, 1996, vol. V, p. 218, no. 925 (illustrated in color, p. 219).



Exhibited

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Léger, January-March 1999, pp. 13 and 60 (illustrated in color, p. 13).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Moderns: Selections From the Saltzman Family Collection, July-November 2015.
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