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Property from a Private Collection, Greece

Fernand Léger

La Chaise noire

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Greece

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


La Chaise noire

signed F. LEGER and dated 49 (lower right); signed F. LEGER., titled and dated 49 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

65 by 54.2 cm. 25½ by 21¼ in.

Framed: 84 by 72 cm. 33 by 28⅜ in.

Executed in 1949.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Galeria Theo, Madrid

Galerie Koller, Zurich

Private Collection, Switzerland

Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1996, lot 206 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Greece (acquired from the above sale)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger. Catalogue raisonné 1949-1951, Paris, 2003, no. 1346, pp. 54-55, illustrated in colour