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The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Fernand Léger

Nature morte à la bouteille

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Cindy and Jay Pritzker Collection

Fernand Léger

(1881 - 1955)


Nature morte à la bouteille

signed F. LÉGER. and dated 26 (lower right)

oil on canvas

36 ⅛ by 23 ⅞ in.   91.7 by 60.5 cm.

Executed in 1926.

Perls Galleries, New York

Arnold H. Maremont, Chicago (acquired by 1961)

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 1 May 1974, lot 9 (consigned by the above)

Modarco S.A. Collection, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above on 29 September 1978 by the present owner

New York, Perls Galleries, The Perls Galleries Collection of Modern French Paintings, 1953, no. 69

Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, The Maremont Collection at the Institute of Design, 1961, no. 75

Washington, D. C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Treasures of 20th Century Art from the Maremont Collection, 1964, no. 90, n.p.

Antwerp, Maison Osterrieth, 40 chefs-d’oeuvre de la Collection Modarco, 1975

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné, 1925-1928, Paris, 1993, no. 446, p. 96, illustrated