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Fernand Léger

Paysage animé

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November 21, 03:30 PM GMT

Estimate

450,000 - 650,000 USD

Bid

320,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


Paysage animé

signed F. Leger and dated 37 (lower right); signed FLeger., titled and dated 37 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

36 ¼ by 23 ⅝ in.

92.1 by 60 cm.

Executed in 1937.

Galerie Simon, Paris

Nierendorf Gallery, New York (acquired by 1945)

Samuel Berger, New York

Sotheby’s, New York, 26 April 1972, lot 77 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

San Francisco Museum of Art, Art of Our Time, 1935-1945, 1945, no. 22, p. 33

Exh. Cat., London, Marlborough Gallery, Selected European Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1973, no. 39, pp. 78-79, illustrated in color

Belgium, Stad Mechelen, Cultureel Centrum, Fernand Léger, 1979, n. 60

Caracas, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Fernand Léger, 1982, no. 46, p. 74, illustrated in color (dated 1937-38)

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Fernand Léger, The Later Years, 1987-88, no. 12, pl. 19, illustrated in color

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Fernand Léger, Zeichnungen, Bilder, Zyklen, 1930-1955, 1988, no. 21, p. 190, illustrated in color

New York, Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, Léger: America’s Culture, 1998, no. 18

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Jacques Lipchitz and the School of Paris, 2023

Douglas Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, London, 1949, p. 130, illustrated

George Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1932-1937, 1996, no. 938, pp. 238-39, illustrated