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Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Fernand Léger

Paysage animé

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Fernand Léger

(1881 - 1955)


Paysage animé

signed F. LÉGER and dated 24 (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25 ¾ by 19 ¾ in.   65.4 by 50.2 cm.

Executed in 1924. 

Richard Davis, New York

Parke Bernet, New York, 13 April 1944, lot 45 (consigned by the above)

George Heard Hamilton and Polly Hamilton, New Haven and Williamstown (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1965)

Richard L. Feigen, New York and Chicago

Heinz Berggruen, New York and Paris

Daniel Malingue, Paris (acquired by 1980)

Folker Skulima, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1982

New York, Galerie Chalette, Fernand Léger, The Figure, 1965, no. 9, n.p., illustrated

Paris, Galerie Daniel Malingue, Maîtres impressionnistes et modernes, 1980, no. 22, n.p., illustrated in color

ArtNews, vol. 55, no. 3, May 1956, illustrated

Apollo, vol. CXII, no. 223, September 1980, illustrated

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger. Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1920-1924, vol. II, Paris, 1992, no. 387, p. 327, illustrated in color