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FERNAND LÉGER | ÉTUDE POUR "LA GRANDE PARADE"

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May 18, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

FERNAND LÉGER

(1881 - 1955)

ÉTUDE POUR "LA GRANDE PARADE"

Signed F. Leger, dated 24 Août 48 and dedicated Vive la Sainte Jeanne! Affectueusement ton père normand (lower right)

Gouache, watercolor, brush and ink and pencil on paper laid down on card

12½ by 19⅝ in. (32.5 by 49.9 cm)

Framed: 25¼ by 32¾ in. (64 by 83 cm)

Executed on August 24, 1948.

(Probably) Jeanne-Augustine Lohy, Paris (the wife of the artist)

Private Collection, Florida (and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 17, 1990, lot 198)

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)

Sale: Christie's, New York, November 7, 2007, lot 212

Howard Russeck Fine Art, Palm Beach (acquired at the above sale)

Jean Cassou & Jean Leymarie, Fernand Léger, Drawings and Gouaches, London, 1973, no. 299, illustrated p. 199

Jean Cassou & Jean Leymarie, Fernand Léger, Dessins et gouaches, nouvelle édition, 2012, no. 16-147, http://www.legerdessinsetgouaches.com/tableaux/etude-pour-la-grande-parade-1/ (accessed on April 29, 2020)