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FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)

Lot 64
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ID 842716
Lot 64 | FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
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FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)

Deux femmes

oil on canvas

51 1/4 x 31 7/8 in. (130.2 x 81.2 cm.)

Painted in 1929





Provenance

Dr. Ingeborg Pudelko-Eichmann, Venice (by 1949).

Private collection, Switzerland (by 1979).

Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above, circa 1999); sale, Christie’s, London, 4 February 2014, lot 30.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

D. Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, pp. 112 and 192 (illustrated, p. 112).

"Hommage à Fernand Léger" in Les lettres françaises, Paris, no. 582, 25-31 August 1955, p. 12 (illustrated).

E.F. Fry, ed., Functions of Painting: Fernand Léger, New York, 1973, p. 70 (illustrated in situ in the artist’s studio, p. 27; dated circa 1925).

G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1929-1931, Paris, 1995, vol. IV, p. 94, no. 657 (illustrated, p. 95).

I. Monod-Fontaine and C. Laugier, Fernand Léger, exh. cat., Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, p. 27 (illustrated in situ in the artist’s studio, p. 27).



Exhibited

Kunsthalle Bern, Fernand Léger, April-May 1952, no. 54.

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Paintings by Fernand Léger, September-October 1952, no. 20.

Mechelen, Culturel Centrum Burgemeester A. Spinoy, Fernand Léger, October-December 1979, p. 60, no. 33. Kunsthaus Zürich, 1979-1999 (on extended loan).
Artist:Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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