FERNAND LÉGER | LA GRANDE PARADE, ÉTUDE

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June 29, 05:15 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman

FERNAND LÉGER

1881 - 1955

LA GRANDE PARADE, ÉTUDE

Signed with the initials F.L. and dated 53 (lower right)

Brush and ink and gouache on paper

19¾ by 25¾ in. (50.2 by 65.4 cm)

Framed: 29½ by 35¼ in. (74.9 by 89.5 cm)

Executed in 1953.

Nadia Léger, Paris

Musée national de Fernand Léger, Biot (acquired by 1967)

Nissenbaum Collection (and sold: Sotheby's, London, April 4, 1979, lot 270)

Waddington Galleries, London (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, California

Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Private Collection, London

Pace Gallery, New York

Vivian Horan, New York

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

Acquavella Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above on May 12, 1988

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum, Léger, 1967, no. 55

Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Léger, 1967, no. 94, illustrated in the catalogue

Paris, Grand Palais, Léger Retrospective, 1971-72, no. 262

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Léger 1881-1981, 1981, no. 67, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Léger, 1983, no. 94, illustrated in the catalogue

New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, European Modern Masters, 1983-84, n.n.

New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX & XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, 1988, no. 23, illustrated in the catalogue